Priest's House is a Grade II listed building in the Rutland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 November 1955. House. 7 related planning applications.
Priest's House
- WRENN ID
- scarred-steel-wind
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rutland
- Constituency
- Rutland and Stamford MP: Alicia Kearns (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 November 1955
- Type
- House
- Address
- Priest's House, Church Close, Caldecott, LE16 8RN
- OS grid reference
- SP 868 936
- Coordinates
- 52.53343, -0.72102
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Priest's House is a house dating from the early to mid-17th century, which was refurbished in 1978-9. It is constructed of banded limestone and ironstone rubble with a slate roof, featuring coped gables with moulded kneelers and roll-moulding at each apex. A central chimney is built of ashlar with a pair of square shafts, though the cornice is missing. The house follows a baffle entry plan and has two storeys and an attic, with two bays. The right bay has three-light windows with ovolo-moulded limestone mullions; the lower window has a casement cornice. Single lights with ovolo-moulded limestone surrounds and cornices are present in the left bay and to the off-centre staircase. The windows are fitted with leaded glazing. A central, gabled stone porch, dating to the 20th century, is positioned at the front. The gables have 20th-century attic windows. The rear of the house retains 17th-century windows with ovolo mullions to the ground floor: a three-light window is on the left, and a four-light window with a king mullion is on the right. However, the upper windows are 20th-century wooden casements. The interior features include stop-chamfered spine and tie-beams, and a stone fireplace with a four-centred arch in the right bay. A large fireplace in the left bay has a wooden lintel shaped into a four-centred arch with bracket-like ends and a moulded rectangular surround.
Local climate
Priest's House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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 — 3 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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