The Old Rectory and Attached Walls and Gate Piers is a Grade II* listed building in the Lichfield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 March 1953. A C18 House. 1 related planning application.

The Old Rectory and Attached Walls and Gate Piers

WRENN ID
worn-vault-swallow
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Lichfield
Constituency
Lichfield MP: Dave Robertson (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 March 1953
Type
House
Address
The Old Rectory and Attached Walls and Gate Piers, Uttoxeter Road, Mavesyn Ridware, WS15 3RG
OS grid reference
SK 077 182
Coordinates
52.76159, -1.88641
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old Rectory, along with its attached walls and gate piers, is a house built around 1728. It features red brick construction, a hipped plain tile roof, and brick ridge stacks. The building has two storeys and an attic, with rusticated quoins of unequal length and a moulded eaves cornice. The front has five windows, which are 12-pane glazing bar sashes with exposed sash boxes, aprons, and gauged brick heads. There is a central six-panel door with a moulded architrave, raised key, and a moulded cornice hood.

The property is enclosed by two short lengths of wall that end in a pair of rusticated ashlar gate piers topped with ball finials, creating a small front courtyard. At the rear, there is a two-storey bow window from the 1790s featuring large stone mullioned windows. Inside, there is an early 18th-century dog-leg staircase with turned balusters and an open string with carved tread ends. One of the front rooms has 18th-century oak panelling, and the ground floor rear room with the bow window has a late 18th-century plaster cornice.

The Old Rectory is likely the same as the Well-house described by Stebbing Shaw in 1798 as "a neat modern brick house, standing by the roadside, erected about 70 years ago, having been lately improved by the present owner Mr. C.B. Robinson, attorney at law."

Local climate

The Old Rectory and Attached Walls and Gate Piers receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% 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 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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