The Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 July 1951. Rectory.
The Rectory
- WRENN ID
- last-terrace-weasel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- South West Norfolk MP: Terry Jermy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 July 1951
- Type
- Rectory
- Address
- The Rectory, Riddlesworth
- OS grid reference
- TL 967 813
- Coordinates
- 52.39521, 0.89016
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Rectory is a mid-18th century building constructed of brick, featuring a roof made of 20th-century pantiles. It stands two storeys tall with an attic, arranged in a symmetrical layout of five bays. The central entrance consists of a panelled door set beneath a tripartite overlight, all framed within a timber case topped with a pediment. The building has sash windows that are adorned with timber architraves and glazing bars, positioned under gauged skewback arches. The gabled roof includes slightly gabled dormers that contain 20th-century casements. Internal gable stacks are present, and the gables have low parapets supported by kneelers. The west gable features tumbling and an extended stack that is now partly external, serving a single-storey flat-topped extension.
Local climate
The 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 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% 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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