The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Stevenage local planning authority area, England. Rectory. 2 related planning applications.
The Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- waning-bailey-snow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stevenage
- Constituency
- Stevenage MP: Kevin Bonavia (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Rectory
- Address
- The Old Rectory, Shephall Green
- OS grid reference
- TL 256 229
- Coordinates
- 51.89076, -0.17505
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory is a building dating from the 17th century or earlier. It features a timber frame and an old tiled roof, with a later 19th century red brick entrance front and garden front that form an L shape. The roof is covered with Welsh slate. The building has two storeys and includes 19th century casement windows with wooden mullions. The back elevation is tile-hung and also has casement windows with glazing bars. Notably, the first floor of the entrance front overhangs on the right side.
Local climate
The Old Rectory sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- 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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