The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the South Kesteven local planning authority area, England. Rectory. 8 related planning applications.
The Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- upper-bronze-cobweb
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Kesteven
- Constituency
- Grantham and Bourne MP: Gareth Davies (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Rectory
- Address
- The Old Rectory, School Lane, Old Somerby, NG33 4AG
- OS grid reference
- SK 964 339
- Coordinates
- 52.89455, -0.5681
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory is a former rectory that has been converted into a house, dating from around 1700, with later alterations and additions from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. The building is constructed of coursed limestone rubble, featuring ashlar quoins and bay windows. It has a slate roof with coped stone gables and ball finials. The rear wing, which is from the 18th and 19th centuries, is made of coursed limestone with brick dressings and has a slate roof along with three stone stacks. The structure has an L-shaped plan, with the rear wing being two storeys high and featuring a garret, a plain parapet, and a cornice. The main facade has four bays and includes a central 20th-century porch, flanked by two 19th-century rectangular bay windows, all topped with flat roofs behind the parapet and cornice. The bay windows have tripartite glazing bar sash windows. On the first floor, there are four glazing bar sash windows with splayed stone lintels, with the end windows centrally located above the bay windows. Inside, there are six panelled doors with moulded architraves and fireplace surrounds from the 18th and 19th centuries that have been relocated from other places.
Local climate
The Old 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 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 8 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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