The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 July 1951. House. 2 related planning applications.
The Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- nether-foundation-raven
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- Mid Norfolk MP: George Freeman (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 July 1951
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Rectory, the Street, Caston
- OS grid reference
- TL 959 976
- Coordinates
- 52.54183, 0.88812
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory is a private house that was originally built as a rectory between 1720 and 1730. It is constructed of colourwashed brick and features a slate roof. The building is two storeys high and has five bays. The central entrance has a round-headed gauged doorway with a glazed door and a seven-vaned fanlight above. On either side of the entrance, there are two tall sash windows with shutters and glazing bars, all set under gauged heads. A flat brick string course runs along the building, and there are five similar windows on the first floor. The eaves are overhanging, and the roof is hipped, with two symmetrical stacks located on the east and west slopes.
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 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% 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 — 3 transactions since 2000
- 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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