Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 July 1951. Rectory. 3 related planning applications.
Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- lesser-panel-saffron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- South West Norfolk MP: Terry Jermy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 July 1951
- Type
- Rectory
- Address
- Old Rectory, South Acre, PE32 2AD
- OS grid reference
- TF 810 143
- Coordinates
- 52.69695, 0.6778
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory is a former rectory built in the late 18th century and later. It features a combination of brick, re-used limestone ashlar, knapped flint, and gault brick. The front block has a flat roof, while the rear is covered with pantiles. The building is two stories high with a three-bay symmetrical facade. It includes two full-height bays that are segmental in plan, featuring tripartite sash windows with glazing bars set beneath rendered skewback arches. The central bay has a two-leaf panelled front door topped by a traceried semicircular fanlight, all within a doorcase formed by a pair of engaged reeded Roman Doric columns that support a renewed broken pediment.
On the first floor, there is a single sash window with glazing bars beneath a rendered skewback arch. The parapet has stone coping. The east facade features a later canted bay on the side of the front block, which has six sash windows with glazing bars (one of which is blind) beneath gault brick skewback arches. The middle bay shows the gable end of the rear block, which has a datestone from 1841 at the base of the gable. This section is constructed of galletted flint with re-used ashlar and gault brick dressings, and it is three stories high with two bays of sash windows with glazing bars beneath skewback arches. The gable displays tumbling-in. There are lower additions to the north that include a two-storey canted bay and sash windows with glazing bars.
The west facade has sash windows with glazing bars, a pedimented doorcase on pilasters, and outbuildings that project westward to form a courtyard. Inside, the original swept staircase features square-sectioned balusters, an open string, and a mahogany handrail.
Local climate
Old Rectory sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% 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
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2005
- 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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