The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Malvern Hills local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 November 1984. House. 2 related planning applications.
The Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- frozen-threshold-vermeil
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Malvern Hills
- Constituency
- West Worcestershire MP: Dame Harriett Baldwin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 November 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Rectory, Astley and Dunley, DY13 0RJ
- OS grid reference
- SO 787 676
- Coordinates
- 52.30639, -2.31333
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory is an 18th-century house with later alterations. It is constructed of red brick and features a hipped slate roof with overhanging eaves. The building has a central entrance and staircase, with a single range and later extensions at the rear. There are two main stacks located towards each end of the house.
On the south elevation, the house has three storeys and a string course at the first floor. It has three window spaces, with the outer bays having blocked or blind windows on the first and second floors. The second floor features a 19th-century casement window, while the central bay has a sash window below and two sashes on the ground floor. There are traces of original window openings in the brickwork, indicating that it was formerly a five-bay front.
The central doorway is flanked by sidelights and is adorned with fluted Doric pilasters, reeded brackets with multiple guttae, and a mutule cornice. The door itself is a renewed partly glazed design with an overlight.
Local climate
The Old Rectory receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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