The Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Malvern Hills local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 November 1984. A C15 Rectory.
The Rectory
- WRENN ID
- open-shingle-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Malvern Hills
- Constituency
- West Worcestershire MP: Dame Harriett Baldwin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 November 1984
- Type
- Rectory
- Address
- The Rectory, Abberley
- OS grid reference
- SO 753 678
- Coordinates
- 52.30822, -2.36274
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Rectory is a building that likely dates from the 15th or early 16th century, with later alterations, especially in the early 19th century. It has a timber-frame structure that is mostly rendered, topped with a hipped slate roof on the left and rendered stacks. Originally, it was designed as a hall with a service area and a solar cross-wing at the southern end. The building has two storeys and three bays, featuring a mix of glazing bar sash windows and two- and three-light segmental headed casements. There is a bow and bay window on the left side of the garden elevation, along with an off-centre French door. The entrance elevation has plain casements and a central door, while a service wing is located to the north. Inside, there is a chamfered and framed ceiling in the southern part, and an arch-braced central truss in the cross-wing. Additionally, some fragments of 16th-century glass can be found in the southwest window.
Local climate
The Rectory receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 63% 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 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1997
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