Rectory Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 August 1991. Farmhouse.
Rectory Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- patient-sandstone-cream
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Huntingdonshire
- Constituency
- Huntingdon MP: Ben Obese-Jecty (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 August 1991
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Rectory Farmhouse, Station Road, Abbots Ripton
- OS grid reference
- TL 230 781
- Coordinates
- 52.38752, -0.19346
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rectory Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the 18th century, or possibly the late 17th century, which was remodeled and extended in the mid to late 19th century. It is built of painted Flemish bond brick, with English bond brick on the northwest gable end. The house features a thatched roof with gabled ends and visual stacks that have rebuilt brick shafts. The building has an L-shaped plan, with a two-room front range that includes a wide entrance hall at the center containing a staircase, and a service wing at the rear of the right-hand room. There are outshuts at the rear of both the main range and the wing. The farmhouse is two storeys high and has a symmetrical three-window southwest front. The windows are tripartite sashes, with a four-pane central sash and narrower sidelights set in a segmented sash opening. The central doorway features a moulded four-panel door with sidelights and margin panes, topped by a flat canopy on wooden braces. The southeast side has similar sashes and a doorway on the side of the rear wing with a gabled canopy. At the rear of the main range, there is an outshut, and on the northwest side of the rear wing, there is a later glazed pentice. The end of the rear wing has a weather-boarded outshut.
Inside, the two ground floor rooms in the front range have relatively low ceilings with boxed-in axial beams. The wide central hall contains a Victorian staircase. The interior generally features 19th-century joinery and a Victorian cast-iron chimney piece in one of the chambers.
Local climate
Rectory Farmhouse 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 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% 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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