Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Wirral local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1952. House.
Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- fossil-span-violet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wirral
- Constituency
- Wallasey MP: Dame Angela Eagle (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 May 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- Old Rectory, Church Hill, Wallasey
- OS grid reference
- SJ 295 921
- Coordinates
- 53.42098, -3.06115
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory is a house built in 1632 by Dr. Snell, with a 20th-century extension added to the rear. The original structure is made of stone, while the extension is roughcast. The roof was missing during a survey in the late 1980s but has since been replaced. The building has two storeys and an attic, with two bays. On the ground floor, there are three-light ovolo-mullioned windows, and the first floor features three-light hollow-chamfered-mullioned windows with label moulds. The second bay includes a gabled two-light hollow-chamfered dormer. The central entrance has a recessed cambered head. The left side of the building has a basement and two drip moulds, with three-light windows on the ground floor, first floor, and attic. The right side has a two-light window on the ground floor, with the lintel of the original window visible on the edge. The interior has been gutted, but the first floor contains two fireplaces with Tudor heads, one of which is inscribed "1685/DOMINUM/GEORG:SNELL/FIERI:FECIT." There are two stacks at the rear, situated between the original house and the 20th-century extension.
Local climate
Old Rectory sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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