The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 August 1983. Rectory.
The Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- fallen-plinth-claret
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Norfolk
- Constituency
- South Norfolk MP: Ben Goldsborough (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 August 1983
- Type
- Rectory
- Address
- The Old Rectory, Mill Road, Marlingford and Colton
- OS grid reference
- TG 129 086
- Coordinates
- 52.63403, 1.14579
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory is a former rectory built in the 17th century, refurbished and extended around 1800. The original part of the house is made of colour-washed flint with brick dressings and has a pantiled roof. The later addition is constructed from colour-washed brick and features a slate roof. The building has two storeys and the main facade includes six windows: three sash windows with vertical glazing bars on the first floor, two sash windows with full sets of glazing bars, and a three-light casement on the ground floor. There is a 20th-century gabled porch. The south gable end has four small blocked windows flanking a former stack, while the north gable end features a stack and a shallow-pitched roof. The garden facade has four bays of sash windows with glazing bars, two glazed doors, and a modern three-light casement. The roof is hipped and has an axial stack. Inside, there is a reused 17th-century cambered fireplace lintel with an ogee and hollow-chamfered moulding.
Local climate
The Old Rectory sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% 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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