Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the North Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 March 1984. Rectory. 2 related planning applications.
Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- rough-flagstone-wagtail
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Norfolk
- Constituency
- Broadland and Fakenham MP: Jerome Mayhew (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 March 1984
- Type
- Rectory
- Address
- Old Rectory, Reepham Road, Thurning, NR20 5QX
- OS grid reference
- TG 079 292
- Coordinates
- 52.82051, 1.08436
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory is a former rectory house built around 1820. It features stuccoed brick construction and has slated roofs. The building is two storeys high with a three-bay entrance front and a four-bay return facade. The entrance front has two ground floor and three first floor sash windows with glazing bars, a central six-panel door with four glazed panels, and a three-light rectangular fanlight above. The entrance is framed by simple architraves and moulded reveals, with simple end pilaster strips and rounded corners. The return facade, which faces the garden, includes four ground floor and four first floor sash windows with glazing bars, end pilasters, and a central pilaster. The roof has a wooden modillion eaves cornice and is hipped, featuring three gault brick stacks. Inside, there is a central staircase with an apsed well and a saucer dome on the first floor, which has a top light.
Local climate
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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2019
- 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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