The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 June 1981. Rectory, house.

The Old Rectory

WRENN ID
haunted-moat-shade
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Norfolk
Constituency
Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 June 1981
Type
Rectory, house
Address
The Old Rectory, 1, 2 and 3, the Street, Pulham St. Mary
OS grid reference
TM 211 853
Coordinates
52.42136, 1.2504
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old Rectory is a 16th-century timber-frame house that has been faced in buff-coloured brick during the early 19th century. An early 19th-century wing has been added to the east end, and the building is now divided into three dwellings.

The sections known as Nos 2 and 3 retain their 16th-century timber-frame structure, faced in brick, and feature a steep tiled roof. They are two storeys high with an attic, and have late 18th to early 19th-century two and three-light casement windows, along with two gabled dormers. The west end has a cross wing with a hipped roof at the front and a gabled roof at the rear, which includes a small gabled wing to the side that features a Venetian stair window. The interior of No 3 contains a stop-chamfered ceiling beam and a heavy moulded fireplace bressumer. There is also a rendered brick chimney stack that is off centre.

At the east end, facing east, is the late 18th to early 19th-century wing (No 1), which is built in buff-coloured brick and has a hipped slate roof with very wide eaves that have a bracketed soffit. This wing is two storeys high and consists of three bays, featuring sashes with glazing bars and flat rubbed brick arches. The central doorway has glazed double doors and a semi-circular fanlight.

Local climate

The Old Rectory sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% 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 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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