The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Rugby local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 July 1987. House.
The Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- twisted-jamb-cedar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rugby
- Constituency
- Kenilworth and Southam MP: Sir Jeremy Wright (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 July 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Rectory, Main Street, Frankton
- OS grid reference
- SP 424 699
- Coordinates
- 52.32646, -1.37862
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory is a house, formerly a rectory, built around 1830. It features Flemish bond buff brick with a string course on the main block and a brick dentil cornice throughout. The building has old tile hipped roofs, while the rear service wing has a slate roof and brick ridge stacks. It is designed in a late Georgian style and has a U-plan layout, with service wings on the left return side.
The house is two storeys high with a two-window range, and a lower three-window service wing to the left. A large painted wood Greek Doric porch, with Soanian incised decoration on the antae and pilasters, features a heavy entablature. The entrance has a half-glazed flush four-panelled door with sidelights that have horizontal glazing bars and a lattice glazed overlight, all framed in a moulded and reeded wood architrave with roundels. The sashes to the left and above have gauged brick flat arches. The service wing has a late 19th-century addition to the left, while the ground floor has two two-light casements and the first floor has horizontal sashes, with glazing bars and brick segmental arches throughout.
The symmetrical right return side facing the garden has a two-window arrangement with large 15-pane sashes on the ground floor, while the rear of the building is irregular. Inside, the entrance hall features a renewed straight flight and winder staircase with scrolled open string and stick balusters, a mid-19th-century encaustic tile floor, and a large dentil cornice. The interior also includes moulded four-panelled doors set in moulded and reeded architraves with corner roundels.
Local climate
The Old Rectory receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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