Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the East Lindsey local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 February 1986. Former rectory.

Old Rectory

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Lindsey
Constituency
Louth and Horncastle MP: Victoria Atkins (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 February 1986
Type
Former rectory
Address
Old Rectory, Church Lane, Welton Le Wold
OS grid reference
TF 273 872
Coordinates
53.36665, -0.08804
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old Rectory is a former rectory, now a house, dating to 1853, with a later 19th-century addition to the left. It was designed by S. S. Teulon. The building is constructed of red brick with painted black bitumen bands and voussoirs to the relieving arches, and has ashlar dressings. It has a coped slate roof with projecting ridge and gable stacks; two of these stacks feature diamond-set shafts.

The house has a parallel arrangement of ranges and is two storeys high, with a plinth. The front features an irregular six-bay design, with a projecting chimney and the fifth and sixth bays advanced and gabled. A double, chamfered Tudor arch is centrally positioned, with an outer arch supported on wall shafts rising to a pierced cusped ogee with floriate crockets and a finial. The inner arch is single-chamfered and set at a right angle to the outer one. To the left of the outer door is a sunk carved panel within a chamfered surround, depicting a grapevine and scrolled motto, initialled "EWH". To the right of the door is a two-light window with segmental and pointed brick relieving arches. To the left of the entry bay are a single and three two-light windows; the principal window has a pointed relieving arch with a herringbone tympanum. On the first floor are three single-light and one two-light windows, with the principal window situated under a gable and a herringbone relieving arch. An oriel window sits above the main door, with a corbelled-out base, a central brick pendant, and a slate-pitched roof. An ashlar quatrefoil dated "1853" is positioned above the oriel. All windows feature chamfered ashlar mullions, transoms, and single-chamfered surrounds. A later 19th-century, two-bay, two-storey extension is located to the left. The right-hand gable is characterised by a rectangular three-light bay window and, beyond that, a cusped and trefoil traceried window set within the base of the chimney stack. A further canted bay window is present at the rear.

The sitting room retains a Tudor arched marble fireplace with a traceried sliding mirror to conceal the window at night. The staircase has pierced, ornate splay balusters and chamfered newels with moulded tops. The landing above features a moulded arch braced roof with pendants. The rectory was built by Edmund William Hughes, who served as Rector from 1842 to 1854.

Local climate

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 69% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% 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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