The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1955. House. 2 related planning applications.
The Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- far-outpost-acorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1955
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Rectory, Off Church Road, Wenham Magna, CO7 6PN
- OS grid reference
- TM 071 380
- Coordinates
- 52.00259, 1.01653
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory is a house with origins dating back to the 16th century or earlier, featuring later alterations and additions, including Georgian and Victorian rear wings. The building has an exposed timber frame and red plain tiled roofs, with red brick chimney stacks on the left and rear right. It is two storeys tall and has a long layout, with a full-height porch on the left. The porch jetties out at the first floor and has a gable with a blocked mullion at the apex. There is a small-paned horizontal sliding sash window on the first floor and a recessed reproduction door, along with two light 20th-century casements on the return. To the left of the porch, there is a 20th-century single-storey extension. On the right side of the porch, the first floor features three small-paned horizontal sliding sashes, while the ground floor has three vari-light casements with angled heads. To the right, there is a 20th-century reproduction gabled timber-framed porch with a plank and muntin door.
Internally, although the frame is mainly intact, some features have been inserted from elsewhere, such as a moulded jowled storey post and a restored inglenook fireplace. Original features include inserted ceilings with stop-chamfered bridging joists and ceiling beams, jowled storey posts, segmental-headed doorways, and one arched brace to a tie beam, with the other cut away. There is also a fragment of an arched brace by the chimney stack and a stick staircase with a wreathed handrail, along with brick floors.
Local climate
The Old Rectory sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2022
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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