The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Melton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 August 1979. Rectory. 4 related planning applications.
The Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- brooding-span-hazel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Melton
- Constituency
- Melton and Syston MP: Edward Argar (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 August 1979
- Type
- Rectory
- Address
- The Old Rectory, Main Street, Eaton, LE14 4LN
- OS grid reference
- SK 778 263
- Coordinates
- 52.82902, -0.84528
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory is a circa 1750 rectory, now a private house, that was raised by a half storey and altered around 1810. It is constructed of coursed ironstone with a slate roof. The building is arranged over two and a half storeys and features five bays. A central 20th-century glazed door sits within a rusticated plastered doorframe, surmounted by a four-vaned Regency fanlight. The windows are sash windows with glazing bars, each with plastered sills and lintels. The eaves feature a modillion cornice, below a gabled roof. Internal gable-end stacks are built of limestone. Interior features include an early 19th-century staircase with stick balusters and a ramped and wreathed handrail. The building is associated with Edmund Cartwright (1743-1823), inventor of the power loom in 1785, who served as rector here.
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 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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 — 2 transactions since 2013
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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