Priory Building at the Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 July 1954. House.

Priory Building at the Old Rectory

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Herefordshire, County of
Constituency
North Herefordshire MP: Dr Ellie Chowns (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 July 1954
Type
House
Address
Priory Building at the Old Rectory, Leominster
OS grid reference
SO 498 593
Coordinates
52.23002, -2.73511
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Priory Building at the Old Rectory is a house that was originally part of the claustral range of a Benedictine monastery, dating from the 13th to the 16th centuries, with alterations made in the 19th century. It is constructed of sandstone rubble and features a Welsh slate roof. The building has three storeys and a four-window range on the south front. To the left, there is a single lancet window and a cross window, both with pointed heads and hood-moulds. To the right, there are two 19th-century lights with upper casements and eight additional 19th-century lights. The façade also includes two 2-light mullion windows and a part-blocked opening in a stone arch, with a central 20th-century entrance and two 19th-century lights, flanked by buttresses.

There is a two-storey wing to the left, featuring three lancet lights in stone reveals and a 19th-century 2-light casement in an altered opening. The left side has various lights, including a blocked mullion window at the gable, and early 19th-century brickwork can be seen at the rear. The south front displays two moulded ashlar cross-windows with 19th-century glazing beneath cusped heads and hood-moulds, along with three 20th-century casements. The interior has not been inspected but is reported to contain a blocked Tudor fireplace at the east end, a blocked 13th-century doorway in the west wall, and an early window.

Local climate

Priory Building at the Old Rectory receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 65% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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