The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1986. House. 1 related planning application.
The Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- lunar-lancet-root
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- Shrewsbury MP: Julia Buckley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 March 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Rectory, Westbury, SY5 9QX
- OS grid reference
- SJ 355 093
- Coordinates
- 52.67801, -2.95507
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory is a rectory that has been converted into a house, dating from around 1820. It features a stucco exterior that is lined to resemble ashlar stone, topped with a hipped slate roof. The building has two storeys, a plinth, and deep eaves, with two pairs of integral brick end stacks and one brick ridge stack.
The entrance front has three bays, with glazing bar sash windows and two ground-floor canted bays that contain four-pane sashes. Access is via three stone steps leading up to two half-glazed doors, which have margin lights and flush lower panels. These doors are framed by a moulded architrave and a porch supported by square piers with moulded capitals, which hold up a frieze and cornice.
On the garden front, the layout consists of one bay, three bays, and one bay, featuring a central two-storey half-octagonal bay with central French casements. There is a verandah on the ground floor supported by latticework and a frieze, topped with a tented lead canopy. To the right, there is a service wing that is set back, with a hipped roof and a ridge stack. This wing has three bays, with glazing bar sashes, except for two-light 20th-century casements on the right side.
Inside, there is an early 19th-century staircase with three flights, which is top-lit and features winders, an open-string design, stick balusters (two per tread), and a wreathed handrail.
Local climate
The Old Rectory receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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