The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Broadland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 July 1983. House. 2 related planning applications.

The Old Rectory

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Broadland
Constituency
Broadland and Fakenham MP: Jerome Mayhew (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 July 1983
Type
House
Address
The Old Rectory, the Street, Booton, NR10 4NZ
OS grid reference
TG 122 223
Coordinates
52.75702, 1.14367
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old Rectory is a rectory that has been converted into a private house. It was designed by Thomas Allom for the Reverend Whitwell Elwin around 1860 in the Jacobean style. The building features red brick with limestone dressings and has steeply-pitched plain-tiled roofs with crested ridges. It is two storeys high with attics. The windows are two and three-light mullion and transom types, set in chamfered stone surrounds. There is a plain stone string course at the first floor level. On the east side, there is a canted bay window with a pierced stone balustrade. The gables are shaped and include stone kneelers, coping, and ball finials. A stone modillion eaves course is present, along with chimney stacks that have double and triple shafts with moulded caps and bases. The gables also feature semi-circular headed attic windows with keystones and imposts. The entrance loggia, located between the cross-wings on the north side, has three three-centred arches with keystones and a pierced stonework balustrade. To the west, there is a one-storey service wing with a parapetted gable and a moulded brick chimney stack. Some ground floor windows at the south-east corner contain good stained glass roundels.

Local climate

The Old Rectory receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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