The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. Rectory.
The Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- keen-slate-fen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard MP: Alex Mayer (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Rectory
- Address
- The Old Rectory, Church Lane, Hockliffe
- OS grid reference
- SP 966 270
- Coordinates
- 51.93372, -0.59618
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory is an 18th-century building with later alterations and additions. It features colourwashed roughcast and has two storeys and attics, topped with a Welsh slate roof. The façade includes three sash windows with glazing bars and two gable dormers. The dormers and the gable on the right side have serrated bargeboards and roof finials. There is a door hood present, and to the left, there is a lower two-storey section with two additional sash windows, also with glazing bars.
Local climate
The Old Rectory sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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