The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1951. House. 1 related planning application.

The Old Rectory

WRENN ID
odd-brass-ochre
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Huntingdonshire
Constituency
St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire MP: Ian Sollom (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 October 1951
Type
House
Address
The Old Rectory, High Street, Yelling
OS grid reference
TL 261 625
Coordinates
52.24625, -0.15334
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old Rectory is an early 18th century red brick double pile house featuring five bays, with an early to mid-19th century gault brick wing to the north-west. The building stands two storeys high with attics. The original 18th century house has hipped plain tile roofs, two ridge stacks, and three gabled dormer windows that have hung sashes and glazing bars. It also features a deeply moulded wooden cornice, a brick band between the floors, and a brick plinth. There are five recessed 19th century hung sash windows with glazing bars set in gauged brick arches on both floor levels. The side entrance facing south-east has been altered. The 19th century wing, which projects slightly, has a shallow hipped slate roof and three recessed hung sash windows with glazing bars in cambered gauged brick arches on the first floor, along with two larger similar ground floor windows to the north-west of the main entrance. The entrance features a deeply moulded panelled door with a continuous moulded stone architrave that has a rounded head, a fanlight, key block, and impost blocks.

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 89% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% 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 0.4°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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