West Cottage and the Old Rectory House and Old Rectory Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1974. A C19 Rectory. 8 related planning applications.
West Cottage and the Old Rectory House and Old Rectory Cottage
- WRENN ID
- eternal-cellar-laurel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- South Shropshire MP: Stuart Anderson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 March 1974
- Type
- Rectory
- Address
- West Cottage and the Old Rectory House and Old Rectory Cottage, Burway Road, Church Stretton
- OS grid reference
- SO 451 938
- Coordinates
- 52.5397, -2.81001
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A rectory, dating to the early 19th century and incorporating an earlier structure, now divided into three houses. The exterior is painted render and brick, with low-pitched slate roofs featuring graduated slates to the rear and deep eaves with coupled brackets. The roofs are gabled at the front and hipped at the rear. Integral brick ridge stacks and projecting brick eaves stacks are located on the east and west sides. The building has an L-shape plan, with later extensions to the east and infill extensions to the north.
The south front has a central two-storey, three-window range with 3/3 sash windows on the first floor and two 6/6 sashes on the ground floor. Flanking the central range are advanced bays with two 6/6 sashes each, topped by pedimented gables with coupled modillioned crown mouldings. The ground-floor sashes are tall with low sills and have carved wood upper sash hoods. The east return features a 6/6 sash window and a two-storey service wing with 20th-century casement windows. The west entrance front has four 6/6 sashes on the first floor, a central, partly projecting Doric portico with pilastered sides and two columns under a flat entablature, a panelled door with side lights and a fanlight with radial glazing bars. A renewed 6/6 sash window is located to the left of the portico, while the portico is flanked by partly projecting stacks. The remaining sides are largely obscured by late 19th and 20th-century extensions.
The interior of the main ground-floor rooms features moulded cornices and dado rails, along with moulded six-panelled doors. A hall contains a helical staircase with a curtail step and wrought-iron balustrade with cast lead details, and a rotunda top light. The front room has a Doric moulded cornice, a coffered ceiling with a figurative centre moulding, and projecting door heads. The grounds are believed to have been landscaped by Capability Brown.
Local climate
West Cottage and the Old Rectory House and Old Rectory Cottage receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 51% 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 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 10 transactions since 1997
- 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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