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

The Rectory

WRENN ID
moated-gargoyle-honey
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Norfolk
Constituency
Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 June 1981
Type
Rectory
Address
The Rectory, Church Lane, Brockdish
OS grid reference
TM 205 796
Coordinates
52.37055, 1.23813
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Rectory is a mid-19th century building designed in the Tudor Gothic style. It features rendered brick walls and a newly tiled roof with gabled ends, which include pierced and shaped bargeboards with pendants and finials, as well as shaped exposed joist ends at the eaves soffit. The structure is two storeys tall and has an asymmetrical design, with a projecting gabled bay off to one side and a gabled porch on the right. The porch has similar bargeboards and a double-chamfered doorway with a 4-centred arch, along with side windows that display lozenge and diamond pattern glazing bars.

On the west side, the building has an asymmetrical double gable, one of which features a two-storeyed splayed bay. There is a long wing at the rear of the property. The windows are all hollow chamfered mullion and transom types, with only a few retaining the original lozenge and diamond-shaped panes. The chimney stacks are grouped and rendered.

Local climate

The 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 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 96% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% 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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