The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 November 1954. Rectory.
The Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- last-solder-ivory
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- South Shropshire MP: Stuart Anderson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 November 1954
- Type
- Rectory
- Address
- The Old Rectory, Eaton, Eaton-Under-Heywood
- OS grid reference
- SO 500 900
- Coordinates
- 52.50602, -2.7378
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory is a house that was originally built as a rectory in the early 18th century, with alterations made in the early and mid-19th century. It is constructed of brick and features painted stone quoins, broad stone bands above and below the upper windows on the front, and brick bands on the rear and sides. The front has a stone cornice beneath a steep pitched plain-tile roof, and the gables are topped with stone-coped brick parapets that were once surmounted by a bell turret. There is a stepped integral brick eaves stack at the rear.
The building has two storeys, an attic, and a cellar. The front facade consists of a two-storey, four-window arrangement with tall 9/9 broad-framed sash windows set in shallow reveals, all featuring gauged brick lintels. The entrance door, which has six panels, is located to the centre left and is sheltered by a projecting open slate-roofed trellis porch. At the west end of the house, there is a small single-storey addition made of stone rubble and brick.
On the left gable end and the rear, there are brick bands and brick segmental-arched openings on each floor, with wood mullion and transom windows. The left gable is partly covered by a small mid-19th century chapel that faces the rear garden and incorporates a blind ashlar arch with an ashlar roundel above it. The right gable features two attic casements with brick segmental-arched lintels. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
The Old Rectory receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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