The Old Rectory is a Grade II* listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1952. A C18 House. 4 related planning applications.
The Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- other-corner-equinox
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Rectory, 1, North Road, Ponteland, NE20 9UH
- OS grid reference
- NZ 165 729
- Coordinates
- 55.05038, -1.74268
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory is a former rectory, now a private house, dating from the early 18th century and heightened in the late 18th century. It was built for Merton College, which were the lay rectors of Ponteland. The building is constructed of brick in English Garden Wall Bond with a stone plinth and features a Welsh slate roof. It stands two storeys high with attics and has seven bays, with the left two bays added shortly after the main structure.
The entrance, located in the fifth bay, consists of a two-leaf, six-panel door with an overlight and a semicircular hood. The windows are 12-pane sashes set in shallow reveals with flat arches, and there is a brick band at the first floor level. The gabled roof has flat coping, a stack at the right end, and three segment-headed dormer windows.
At the rear, there is a two-storey lean-to with irregular openings that include 12-pane sashes, Yorkshire sashes, and 16-pane sashes.
Inside, the property features a late 18th-century staircase with stick balusters. There are two early 18th-century panelled rooms, one of which is in the added two-bay left section. Both rooms have two-panelled doors and wood cornices. One room includes a fireplace with a bolection-moulded surround and a round-headed niche with shaped shelves.
Local climate
The Old Rectory receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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