The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Harborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1985. House.
The Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-casement-blackthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Harborough
- Constituency
- Rutland and Stamford MP: Alicia Kearns (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 April 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Rectory, Rectory Lane, Medbourne
- OS grid reference
- SP 800 930
- Coordinates
- 52.52982, -0.82103
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory is a house built around 1840, likely with earlier origins. It features cemented elevations, probably made of brick, and a Welsh slate roof with stone ridge and end stacks. The gables are stone-coped. Designed in a classical style, the building has a rusticated ground floor, moulded eaves, and slightly projecting pedimented sections at either end of the front.
The house is two storeys high and has five 6/6 sash windows in painted moulded frames. On the ground floor, from left to right, there is a tripartite window with 2/2, 6/6, and 2/2 sashes, followed by a porch, two 6/6 sash windows, and another similar tripartite sash. The porch is rectangular and flat-topped, supported by two square columns and pilasters at the wall, all featuring Composite capitals. An entablature and blocking course sit above the porch, and a cornice and blocking course continue across the front as a raised band. Inside the porch, there is a two-leaved part-glazed door.
On the right end of the building, there is a large one-storey flat-topped porch and a two-storey wing that projects to the rear, which includes three 3-light centre-opening casements.
Local climate
The Old Rectory sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings