The Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 February 1985. House, former rectory.
The Rectory
- WRENN ID
- crooked-eave-ivory
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Easington MP: Grahame Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 February 1985
- Type
- House, former rectory
- Address
- The Rectory, Hesledon Lane, Hawthorn
- OS grid reference
- NZ 417 458
- Coordinates
- 54.80541, -1.3518
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Rectory is a house that was formerly a rectory, built in 1868. It features limestone ashlar and steeply-pitched Welsh slate roofs, designed in the Tudor revival style. The building has a double-depth square plan with a central staircase, and it stands two storeys tall with three bays across the front and two bays deep.
The entrance front includes a single bay and two slightly projecting bays, one of which has a cross-gabled design on the right. The structure has a chamfered plinth and a central door that is topped with a 2-pane overlight and a datestone beneath a stepped hoodmould. The windows are ovolo-moulded and consist of mullioned-and-transomed designs. On the ground floor, there is a six-light window in the left bay, also under a hoodmould. The cross-gabled bay features a two-storey canted bay window with a three-light window above it. A string course separates the two storeys, and the gable parapets are adorned with chamfered stone copings and kneelers topped with ball finials. The building has two ridge stacks with chamfered banding and one cross-axial stack. The left return is gabled, while the right return has two bays with mullioned-and-transomed windows containing four and six lights.
Inside, there is a four-flight dogleg staircase with two stick balusters per tread. There are detached ancillary buildings at the rear, but these are not of special interest.
Local climate
The Rectory sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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