The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Malvern Hills local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1988. Rectory.
The Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- dusk-remnant-jay
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Malvern Hills
- Constituency
- West Worcestershire MP: Dame Harriett Baldwin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 October 1988
- Type
- Rectory
- Address
- The Old Rectory, Church Street, Tenbury
- OS grid reference
- SO 594 682
- Coordinates
- 52.31129, -2.59563
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory is a house that was originally built as a rectory in the early 19th century. It features mainly stuccoed brick construction and has shallow-pitched, partly hipped slate roofs with grouped stuccoed ridge stacks. The building is two storeys high and has a chamfered plinth, a moulded sill string at the first floor level, and a modillion eaves cornice.
The elevation facing Church Street consists of three bays, with the outer bays projecting forward. These outer bays have large 12-paned sash windows on the ground floor and smaller 12-paned sash windows on the first floor, both framed by moulded eared architraves. The central bay features a tripartite ground floor window that includes a central 12-pane sash flanked by two outer 4-pane sashes, all topped with a moulded cornice and pilasters. A smaller version of this window is located on the first floor.
The entrance elevation on the south side also has three bays and includes 12-pane sashes with moulded eared architraves on both storeys, with the first-floor windows being smaller. A prominent feature of this elevation is a large central tetrastyle Ionic portico. Inside the portico, there is a six-panelled door accompanied by a transom light and side lights, which are decorated with a painted scene and hop bouquets.
Local climate
The Old Rectory receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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