The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 July 1958. Rectory, private house. 1 related planning application.
The Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- knotted-crypt-falcon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- Mid Norfolk MP: George Freeman (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 July 1958
- Type
- Rectory, private house
- Address
- The Old Rectory, Church Street, Little Ellingham, NR17 1JN
- OS grid reference
- TM 004 992
- Coordinates
- 52.55389, 0.95588
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory is a former rectory, now a private house, dating from around 1700 with an extension from the early 19th century. It is constructed of brick and has a slate roof. The facade features 2½ storeys and consists of five bays. A six-panelled door is located in the second bay from the right, set behind a doorcase with modified Tuscan columnettes that support a broken pediment. Each floor has sash windows under gauged skewback arches. The attic storey, added around 1830, is topped with an eaves cornice that has paired modillions. The building has a hipped roof and a two-storeyed bow on the east side, also from around 1830, which contains three sashes on each floor, retaining their glazing bars under gauged skewback arches. Inside, the drawing room features a pair of modified Doric pilasters that support a ceiling beam, along with a timber carved fireplace surround decorated with swags. The open cut dog-leg staircase has two balusters on each tread and a handrail that is scrolled at the newel. The kitchen contains a fireplace from around 1700 and two bridging beams with tongue stops.
Local climate
The Old Rectory sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer 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
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2003
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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