The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Doncaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 October 1980. Rectory. 3 related planning applications.
The Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- seventh-pier-barley
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Doncaster
- Constituency
- Doncaster North MP: Ed Miliband (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 October 1980
- Type
- Rectory
- Address
- The Old Rectory, Boat Lane, Sprotbrough and Cusworth, DN5 7LU
- OS grid reference
- SE 538 019
- Coordinates
- 53.51163, -1.18968
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory is a rectory that has been converted into a house. It dates from the late 17th century and was rebuilt around 1820. The building features stuccoed walls and a stone slate roof, and is designed in the Tudor-Gothic Revival style. It is two storeys tall and has a three-by-three bay layout. The central bay is gabled and projects forward, featuring a single-storey porch with a moulded doorway arch and sunken spandrels. The angle buttresses rise to form pinnacles, and the gable copings are topped with crosses.
The tall flanking windows on the main wall have geometrical cast-iron glazing bars. The outer bays contain three-light mullioned windows with chamfered surrounds, Tudor-arched lights, and hoodmoulds that have large lozenge-shaped stops. The first floor has two-light windows in the same style, with the hoodmoulds of the outer windows set beneath a corbelled parapet that returns to the sides of the ashlar-coped central gable, which has a blind rectangular light. The end gables are coped, with the left gable featuring a finial. Tall castellated chimney pots are visible at the rear of the ridge.
The garden front on the left return mirrors the main style, with a recessed central bay that has a renewed French window. The flanking bays project forward and have two-storey canted-bay windows. Shafts rise from corbels on each gable to form finials, and the parapet of the central bay is decorated with cusped, blind tracery. There are two ridge-stack bases visible from the front, and a flat-roofed projection set back on the left has a stack in the angle with the main range.
Inside, there are contemporary panelled doors and fireplace fittings in the Gothic Revival style. The entrance hall features Gothic arches, and the central stair-hall is illuminated by a lantern.
Local climate
The Old Rectory receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% 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 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 70% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2008
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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