The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 June 1981. House. 3 related planning applications.
The Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- vast-gallery-rowan
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Norfolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 June 1981
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Rectory, Rectory Road, Shelfanger, IP22 2DQ
- OS grid reference
- TM 108 837
- Coordinates
- 52.41126, 1.09809
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory is a timber-frame house dating to the late 16th and early 17th centuries. It has a tiled roof with one end gabled and one end hipped. The house is two storeys high with an attic. It features five windows widely spaced along the front. The two northern bays date to the 17th and 18th centuries and include a gabled wing to the rear, on the northwest side. The windows are sash windows with glazing bars, and are early 19th-century casements, originally centered but now off-center. The attic gable contains a moulded mullioned window. There are two glazed doors with Victorian gabled wooden porches. A brick chimney stack is located behind the gable at the center of the original house. A rear wing, on the southwest side, is likely from the 17th century, plastered, and has a 19th-century addition.
Local climate
The Old Rectory sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2004
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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