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This former rectory in the little Somerset village of Greinton is a grade II listed building and is now known as Greinton House. There is evidence of there being a church house on the site as early as 1606. It was probably that same building that was being used as a rectory in the early 19th century. It lay about 100 yards northeast of the Church of St Michael and All Angels, separated from it by the main road that runs through the village. In 1835, the Rector at the time, Robert Speckott Barter (1790-1861), pronounced the house as unfit. He was also the Warden of Winchester College so probably didn't actually live in the house. Five years later, the curate said he was "satisfied with it" and he presumably was living in there. Nonetheless, not long after that, the Scottish-born Exeter architect, David Mackintosh, was commissioned to design a new Rectory. It was completed in 1852 using local stone and it's that building that stands on the site today. In 1960 the Church Commissioners sold the property and it was given the name by which it is now known. In recent years it has been a hotel but it now seems to have returned to the status of a private house.