The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1978. House.
The Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- plain-cloister-wind
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 February 1978
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Rectory, Rectory Lane, Newton
- OS grid reference
- TL 918 398
- Coordinates
- 52.02393, 0.7944
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory is a large house with origins dating from the 16th to 17th centuries. It features a mix of timber framing and plaster, along with sections faced in colourwashed brick. The house underwent significant refacing or rebuilding in the 18th and 19th centuries. The original structure appears to have been designed in an L-shaped plan, with wings extending to the west and north, and a later 18th-century block added at the angle, featuring gables on both the west and north sides. The building has two storeys and attics. Most windows are double-hung sashes with glazing bars, and the south and east fronts include 18th or early 19th-century splayed bay windows. The roofs are tiled, and there are two original chimney stacks with four grouped octagonal shafts on square bases on the north wing, as well as one original stack with two octagonal shafts featuring moulded caps and bases on the west wing.
Local climate
The Old Rectory sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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