The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 May 1950. A Late C18 Residential. 3 related planning applications.
The Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- night-groin-rook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- St Albans MP: Daisy Cooper (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 May 1950
- Type
- Residential
- Address
- The Old Rectory, Sumpter Yard
- OS grid reference
- TL 146 069
- Coordinates
- 51.74984, -0.34081
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory is a late 18th century brick house that stands two storeys high with an attic, featuring five windows. It has a hipped, tiled mansard roof with a central brick gabled dormer that rises from the parapet. There is a low brick parapet above a broad string course, with another string course at the first-floor level. The left and right first-floor windows, as well as the right ground-floor windows, are blocked. The remaining windows are sashes with glazing bars set in near-flush box frames, all under gauged, flat brick arches. Notably, there are two inner ground-floor Venetian windows with interlacing glazing bars in round heads. The central door consists of four fielded panels and two flat panels, topped with a cornice head and a radial fanlight, all within a doorcase that features an open pediment above.
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 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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