The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Peterborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 December 1955. A C17 House.
The Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- vast-minaret-willow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Peterborough
- Constituency
- North West Cambridgeshire MP: Sam Carling (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 December 1955
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Rectory, 23, Church Hill, Castor, City of Peterborough
- OS grid reference
- TL 124 985
- Coordinates
- 52.57351, -0.34234
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory is a 17th-century house that was said to have served as the old rectory. It was extended to the west in the later 17th century. The building features a long range constructed from coursed stone rubble and has a steeply pitched Collyweston stone roof with coped gabled ends. It is two storeys high and has a five-window range, with two and three-light casements that have leaded panes; one window includes an ovolo moulded mullion. There are also two gabled dormers and a central fielded panel door. The house has brick and stone ridge stacks, along with a stone stack topped with brick at the north-west end. Inside, there is a 17th-century dogleg staircase with shaped slat balusters, square newels, and a moulded handrail and string. An open fireplace is located at the west end.
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 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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