The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 November 1982. Rectory. 2 related planning applications.
The Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- tattered-window-dust
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Huntingdonshire
- Constituency
- Huntingdon MP: Ben Obese-Jecty (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1982
- Type
- Rectory
- Address
- The Old Rectory, St Ives Road, Houghton and Wyton, PE28 2BL
- OS grid reference
- TL 283 726
- Coordinates
- 52.33672, -0.11819
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory is a house dating from around 1840, located on the north side of St Ives Road in Houghton. The building is constructed of gault brick and features a low-pitched hipped slate roof with bracket modillions at the eaves. It is two storeys high and has two internal stacks capped with similar brackets. The front has a three-window range of hung sashes with glazing bars, set beneath flat stone arches. Flanking the central flat-roofed porch, which has a cornice with similar brackets, are two ground-floor windows with stone architraves. The entrance features a semi-circular headed moulded stone arch and glazed openings on the sides, with a stone band at impost height. The door has six raised and fielded panels and a rectangular fanlight.
To the right of the main house, there are two-storey service and stable ranges that form two sides of a walled courtyard. These ranges are also built of gault brick and have a low-pitched slate roof with gable ends and a dentil eaves cornice. An internal stack features a saw-tooth cornice, and there is a band between the storeys. The first floor has five hung sashes with glazing bars set in cambered arches, and there is a three-light opening with semi-circular headed stone arches leading to the hayloft. The courtyard wall is made of similar brick and includes blind panels, with stone coping on brick piers at the entry.
Local climate
The Old Rectory sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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