The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 May 1985. House.
The Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- cold-crypt-spindle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 May 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Rectory, Coach Drive, Harlton
- OS grid reference
- TL 387 524
- Coordinates
- 52.15329, 0.02695
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory is a house that was formerly used as a rectory, built in 1843. It is constructed of grey gault brick, which is now painted, and features a low-pitched hipped slate roof with symmetrically placed internal stacks. The building has deep eaves cornices supported by scroll brackets. Its layout consists of a double pile with an adjoining wing for offices. The house has two storeys and includes a three-brick band between the levels.
The principal front displays flat arches over a symmetrical arrangement of three twelve-pane hung sash windows. There is an Ionic portico that leads to the central doorway, which is set in a round-headed arch and features a four-panelled door with radial glazing bars in the fanlight. The garden front has two similar hung sashes on either side of a larger stair window, and on the ground floor, there are two tripartite hung sashes flanking a smaller garden doorway, also in a round-headed arch. The original doorcase is preserved at the parish doorway in the office wing.
Inside, there is an original open-string staircase with curtail and scroll tread ends. A screen separates the incumbent's study from the parish room and the family area on the garden side.
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 97% 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 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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