The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. House. 2 related planning applications.

The Old Rectory

WRENN ID
calm-pilaster-raven
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Huntingdonshire
Constituency
North West Cambridgeshire MP: Sam Carling (Lab)
Country
England
Type
House
Address
The Old Rectory, 4, Old Great North Road, Water Newton, PE8 6LU
OS grid reference
TL 109 972
Coordinates
52.56202, -0.3654
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old Rectory is an early 18th-century house, originally the rectory for Water Newton, with later additions, including a porch dated 1894. It is constructed of coursed limestone rubble with ashlar and freestone dressings, and has collyweston stone slated roofs. The building is two storeys and attics, with a single-storey range extending to the right. It features parapet gables with brick end stacks and moulded corbels, mirroring the moulded stone eaves cornice. Other details include an ashlar band between floors and a chamfered plinth. The front features a dated stone porch with a chamfered two-centred arch and a glazed door with a reeded wooden architrave. The ground floor has two C19 hung sash windows with margin glazing bars, set within inserted flat ashlar arched heads. Three first-floor casement windows and three dormer windows, each with a boarded gable, are also present. Internally, original moulded ceiling cornices remain.

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 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 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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  • Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 1996
  • Related listed building consents — 2 applications
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
  • Flood risk assessment
  • Radon risk assessment
  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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