Rectory Farmhouse and Garden Wall to West is a Grade II listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. House.

Rectory Farmhouse and Garden Wall to West

WRENN ID
scattered-brass-willow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Huntingdonshire
Constituency
North West Cambridgeshire MP: Sam Carling (Lab)
Country
England
Type
House
Address
Rectory Farmhouse and Garden Wall to West, 2, Middle Street, Elton
OS grid reference
TL 087 938
Coordinates
52.53133, -0.39779
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Rectory Farmhouse, located on Elton Middle Street, is a house that was formerly a farmhouse, with a garden wall to the west. It dates from the late 17th century and has undergone alterations and additions in the 19th century. The building is constructed from coursed limestone rubble, featuring some large possibly reused dressed limestone blocks and freestone quoins, along with 19th-century brick. The roof is tiled and dates from the 20th century.

The structure is two storeys high with an attic, and the main east-west range may have been rebuilt in the 19th century, complemented by a cross wing to the west. The street-facing elevation includes a wide four-panelled door with a flat canopy to the left, flanked by two three-light and one four-light casement windows, all with wooden lintels. On the first floor, there is one three-light and two two-light casement windows. The cross wing features parapet gables with moulded stone copings, an altered three-light casement window with a wooden lintel, and a first-floor three-light ovolo-mullioned casement window with a moulded cornice, along with two similar two-light windows on the east elevation.

Inside, the cross wing showcases stop-chamfered ceiling beams with circular patterns on the soffit, open hearths with chamfered mantel beams, and stone pavings in the hall.

Local climate

Rectory Farmhouse and Garden Wall to West sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% 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 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% 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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