The Old Priests House is a Grade II listed building in the West Lindsey local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 November 1966. House.
The Old Priests House
- WRENN ID
- far-wicket-rain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Lindsey
- Constituency
- Gainsborough MP: Sir Edward Leigh (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 November 1966
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Priests House, the Square, Great Limber
- OS grid reference
- TA 133 085
- Coordinates
- 53.56125, -0.2905
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Priest's House is a house that was formerly a priest's residence, dating from the 17th century with alterations from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. It is constructed of colourwashed brick and features a thatched roof with a steep tile-coped gable and kneelers, along with one gable and two ridge stacks. The building has an irregular five-bay front that is primarily a single long range, but includes a single-storey kitchen at one end and a single-storey outshut.
The front has off-centre 20th-century double French doors, with a glazing bar sash window to the left and a glazing bar casement to the right. In the outshut, there is a glazing bar sash and a four-light casement, along with a half-glazed door leading to the kitchen. On the first floor, there are three glazing bar sashes, a Yorkshire glazing bar sash, and three small glazing bar casements. The two upper windows on the right side of the front are dormers, with the thatch sweeping up over them.
Inside the kitchen, there are two bays of a 17th-century softwood ceiling with moulded girders. The main house roof, also from the 17th century, features trapped purlin construction with a ridgepiece. On the first floor, extensive oak timbers of probable early 17th-century character are exposed, with one timber bearing an unreliable date of 1311.
Local climate
The Old Priests House receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2003
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