The Old Rectory is a Grade II* listed building in the Harborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 January 1955. A C18 House. 6 related planning applications.
The Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- quartered-soffit-sienna
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Harborough
- Constituency
- South Leicestershire MP: Alberto Costa (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 January 1955
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Rectory, Main Street, Willoughby Waterleys, LE8 6UF
- OS grid reference
- SP 575 924
- Coordinates
- 52.52699, -1.15352
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory is a house dating from around 1740, constructed of brick with a Welsh slate roof. It is two storeys high, featuring an attic and five bays that are symmetrically arranged. The central doorway is framed by a moulded wood architrave and has a flat canopy supported by consoles. The door includes glazed upper lights with heavy astragals. The windows are now four-light sashes, each with moulded wood architraves and flat splayed finely gauged brick heads that have painted keystones. A projecting painted string course runs along the building, and the stone coping to the parapet is complemented by a recessed roof that includes three dormers, which alternate between steeply triangular and segmental shapes.
Originally, the double pile plan included three windows on the side elevation, but two lower lights have been blocked; one has been converted into a lancet doorway, while one upper window is also blocked. The remaining windows are two-light casements with transoms. Inside, there is a fine contemporary staircase featuring three balusters per tread, with alternating turned and twisted designs, as well as plasterwork cornices.
Local climate
The Old Rectory receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 67% 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 1999
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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