The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 October 1951. Rectory.
The Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- lesser-steeple-solstice
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Norfolk
- Constituency
- South Norfolk MP: Ben Goldsborough (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 October 1951
- Type
- Rectory
- Address
- The Old Rectory, Watton Road, Colney
- OS grid reference
- TG 178 079
- Coordinates
- 52.62511, 1.21786
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory, built in 1715, features a brick structure with a pantiled roof and is located on the north side of Colney Watton Road. The building has two storeys and an attic, comprising three bays. There is a one-storey off-centre porch with a shaped gable. The ground floor showcases skewback arches with rubbed brick voussoirs, sash windows with thin glazing bars, and a three-course plat-band. The roof includes three gabled dormer windows with shaped barge boards and casements, along with curvilinear main gables. The front door, dating from around 1800, has raised and fielded panels and a fanlight with glazing bars. At the rear, there is an ornate timber weatherboarded extension from 1891, marked with the initials B and P (Boulton and Paul). This extension is canted in plan and features French doors and casement windows with subdivided upper sections, supported by two arched braces at the eaves, and topped with a turned ridge finial.
Local climate
The Old Rectory sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 85% 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 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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