Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Chorley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 January 1987. Rectory.
Rectory
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-ember-swift
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Chorley
- Constituency
- South Ribble MP: Mr Paul Foster (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 January 1987
- Type
- Rectory
- Address
- Rectory, South Road, Bretherton
- OS grid reference
- SD 476 204
- Coordinates
- 53.67762, -2.79451
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Rectory, dating from around 1840, serves the parish church of St. John Evangelist. It is constructed of red brick with sandstone dressings and features a slate roof with ornamental bargeboards. The building has a double-depth layout with three bays and stands two storeys tall, designed in a simple Jacobean style with a symmetrical façade. The entrance includes a Tudor-arched doorway with a moulded sandstone surround, an arched fanlight with hollow spandrels, and a hoodmould. There are two 12-pane sash windows at the ground floor and three above, all with hoodmoulds. The left gable wall has three windows on each floor and one in the attic, similar to those at the front, except for a canted bay window at the rear of the ground floor. The central windows on this wall are false, being fully glazed but backed by a wall painted black. The Rectory is listed for its group value only.
Local climate
Rectory sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,240 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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