The Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the East Lindsey local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 December 1987. Rectory.
The Rectory
- WRENN ID
- outer-doorway-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Lindsey
- Constituency
- Louth and Horncastle MP: Victoria Atkins (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 December 1987
- Type
- Rectory
- Address
- The Rectory, Westgate, Louth
- OS grid reference
- TF 326 873
- Coordinates
- 53.3663, -0.00825
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Rectory is a 1828 building constructed of red brick with slate roofs, featuring brick coped gables and kneelers. It has four tall brick stacks with diagonal shafts. The main south front is two storeys high and consists of three bays, with the central bay slightly recessed. This central section includes a doorway with a painted four-centred arched surround and a half-glazed door. To the left, there is a tall four-light casement window with four-centred arched heads beneath a Tudor hood, while to the right is a shorter, similar window. Above the doorway is a central glazing bar sash window with a four-centred arched head. Flanking the central bay are single two-light cross casements, and above them are single blind openings in the gables.
The irregularly fenestrated west front features an external stack that incorporates some medieval fragments from the church within its masonry, along with a datestone inscribed with the year 1828. Inside, there is a contemporary single flight return staircase with early 18th-century re-used balusters, likely from an earlier house that once stood on this site, with other remnants possibly concealed within the current structure.
Local climate
The Rectory 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 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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