The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 January 1985. House.
The Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- second-chamber-lichen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 January 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Rectory, Hillside Road, Stondon
- OS grid reference
- TL 149 355
- Coordinates
- 52.0061, -0.32661
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory is a house that was formerly a rectory, dating from the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. The earlier sections are timber framed with red brick infill and have clay tile roofs, while the 19th-century sections are made of colourwashed brick with hipped slate roofs. The building has a complex plan and stands two storeys high.
The east elevation features a central block that slightly projects and is the oldest part of the structure. To the right is an 18th-century block, which has been extended to the right in red brick. The left side contains a 19th-century block. The windows throughout the building are all casements, with the central and 18th-century parts having leaded glass in a pointed-arched design. The outer blocks feature windows with glazing bars. The left block includes a canted bay on the ground floor.
The central block has a front door with six moulded panels, set in a moulded surround and topped with a flat hood. There is a brick buttress at the center of the central block, and various chimney stacks are present, including one at the junction of the central and left blocks and another on the 18th-century block.
Local climate
The Old Rectory sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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