Old Church House is a Grade II listed building in the West Lindsey local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 November 1966. Former church, house.
Old Church House
- WRENN ID
- silent-slate-quill
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Lindsey
- Constituency
- Gainsborough MP: Sir Edward Leigh (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 November 1966
- Type
- Former church, house
- Address
- Old Church House, Cold Hanworth
- OS grid reference
- TF 035 832
- Coordinates
- 53.33595, -0.44696
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Church House is a former parish church, now a house, built in 1863 by J. Croft of Islington for Commodore Peter Cracroft in memory of his father. It is incorrectly shown as a church on the Ordnance Survey map. The building is constructed of rock-faced limestone with ashlar dressings and features slate roofs with raised stone coped gables and crosses fleury. The church is designed in an elaborate High Victorian Gothic style with extensive decoration, comprising a nave, chancel, south porch, western tower, and vestry.
The tower has two stages, an octagonal belfry, and is topped by an octagonal spire. The west window consists of two lights with debased curvilinear tracery, and the tower is flanked by two cusped septofoil lights on the nave's west wall. The north side of the nave features four two-light windows with buttresses in between. At the east end of the nave's north wall is a gable with a vesica light, leading to an octagonal vestry with a pointed roof. The chancel's north wall has a cross-shaped window, while the east wall of the chancel boasts a large three-light window with paired colonettes. The chancel's south wall includes a cruciform window and a lancet to the west, along with three two-light windows now covered by 20th-century wooden casements.
The gabled south porch has an outer door in the style of the 13th century, featuring nook shafts and a moulded head, and above the porch is an octagonal moulded chimney stack. The inner doorway is a cusped pointed arch. The interior has been extensively altered for domestic use and painted, which has diminished the original polychromatic effect.
Local climate
Old Church House receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% 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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