The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1967. House.

The Old Rectory

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Hertfordshire
Constituency
North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 February 1967
Type
House
Address
The Old Rectory, Rectory Close, Buckland
OS grid reference
TL 358 339
Coordinates
51.98709, -0.02329
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old Rectory is a rectory that has been converted into a private house. It dates from the 18th century or earlier and was extended to the east in the early 19th century. The building is constructed of white painted brick and features old red tile roofs, with a hipped roof on the original block and a gabled projection at the southeast. The lower eastern extensions have a slated hipped roof.

The house is two storeys with attics and has a double-pile end-chimneys plan. It is a rectangular structure facing south, with the entrance now located at the north side. The northeast has lower extensions, and there is a projecting front gable on the right. The doorway is round-headed and situated in the angle of the building.

On the ground floor, there are large triple sash windows with segmental arches on both the left and right sides. The first floor features three vertically proportioned windows that now have wooden casements. A gabled dormer window with cusped bargeboards is present on the roof slope. A modillioned wooden cornice runs along the front eaves, while the west side has a toothed brick eaves course and two well-crafted 18th-century moulded rainwater heads.

Local climate

The Old Rectory 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 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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