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. 2 related planning applications.
The Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- sheer-gallery-bistre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire MP: Ian Sollom (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 May 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Rectory, 2, Old Rectory Drive, Dry Drayton, CB23 8BU
- OS grid reference
- TL 377 621
- Coordinates
- 52.24042, 0.01663
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory is a house that was formerly used as a rectory, built between 1830 and 1831. It is constructed of gault brick with Ketton stone dressings and features hipped slate roofs with parapets. The building has a double pile plan with services and offices located at the rear. It stands two storeys tall with an attic and has its principal front facing the garden. The façade consists of four bays, including two slightly projecting and pedimented centre bays. The windows are recessed hung sashes set in flat gauged brick arches. Access is provided through a later porch on the side, which has plain piers made of Ketton stone and similar gault brick walls. Inside, the house retains an original open string cantilevered staircase and one original white marble fireplace.
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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2026
- 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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