The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 August 1983. House. 1 related planning application.
The Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- worn-balcony-bittern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- Mid Norfolk MP: George Freeman (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 August 1983
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Rectory, Scoulton
- OS grid reference
- TF 985 000
- Coordinates
- 52.56246, 0.92721
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory is a house dating from the late 17th century and later. It is constructed of whitewashed brick and rendered clay lump, with black pantiles and slate roofs. A double pile was added to the original house. The building features a two-storey gabled entrance porch and has two casements in original openings to the left. There is a 19th-century sash window with a hood mould on the first floor. The house has a gabled roof and extensions to the west that are two storeys high, dating from the late 18th century. The windows are scattered and include sash windows and casements, all with glazing bars. The roofs are gabled and have axial ridge stacks, with further similar one and two-storey additions to the east.
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 79% 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 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% 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 — 1 application
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- 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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