The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 June 1967. House. 2 related planning applications.
The Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- deep-rotunda-snow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Runcorn and Helsby MP: Sarah Pochin (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 June 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Rectory, Great Barrow
- OS grid reference
- SJ 470 683
- Coordinates
- 53.20963, -2.79487
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory is a house, originally a rectory, dating to 1696, with extensions and an upper storey added around the 1860s. It is constructed of washed brick with a Welsh slate roof, and incorporates four brick chimneys. The building has an L-shaped plan and a three-storey, four-bay south front. A brick band runs along the first floor level. The windows are mostly 2 and 3-light casements with glazing bars, and an upper panel featuring intersecting tracery; these windows are set within flat, wedged brick heads. The third bay features a two-storey gabled porch with a smaller wooden trellis porch sheltering a half-glazed front door. A 2-light window is positioned above the door. An added wing to the right includes a two-storey canted bay window with windows set within stone surrounds that complement the original design. The interior, which has not been inspected, is believed to contain doors with two fielded panels, panelled shutters, substantial ceiling beams on the original ground floor, and a turned baluster closed-string staircase, according to provisional listing records.
Local climate
The Old Rectory receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 7 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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