Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 February 2000. Rectory, house. 1 related planning application.
Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- grim-hall-merlin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- South Shropshire MP: Stuart Anderson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 February 2000
- Type
- Rectory, house
- Address
- Old Rectory, Abdon and Heath, SY7 9HS
- OS grid reference
- SO 556 870
- Coordinates
- 52.47961, -2.6542
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory is a house that was originally built as a rectory in the 17th century. It features a three-bay rear range with 19th-century alterations and an early 19th-century front range. The building is constructed from stone rubble and has a plain-tile roof with decorative wooden eaves fascia and bargeboards. The front range has partly projecting brick stepped gable-end stacks, while the rear range includes a brick ridge stack and projecting stone gable-end stacks, which are now capped with tiles.
The structure has a square plan consisting of two parallel ranges and is two storeys high with a cellar. The south front displays a two-storey, three-window arrangement of restored two-light casements, with the lower casements replaced by projecting canted bay windows. There is a central doorway with a gabled canopy supported by carved brackets. On the right (east) side, there are 20th-century two-light casements on either side of the stack. The north side features three-over-six sashes in gabled semi-dormers above the casements. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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