The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 March 1972. Rectory. 2 related planning applications.

The Old Rectory

WRENN ID
riven-glass-harvest
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Suffolk
Constituency
Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
16 March 1972
Type
Rectory
Address
The Old Rectory, Church Lane, All Saints and St. Nicholas, South Elmham, IP19 0PB
OS grid reference
TM 330 832
Coordinates
52.39744, 1.42408
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old Rectory is a former rectory for the parish of All Saints and St. Nicholas in South Elmham, built in 1862 for the Rev. Samuel Boise Turner. This building showcases a form of Victorian Gothic architecture and is two storeys tall with an irregular shape. It is constructed of red brick, featuring white brick and some stone details, and has a slate roof that is both hipped and gabled, with wide eaves overhangs. The windows are casement style, and there is a ground-floor bay window topped with a polygonal roof. The entrance features a double porch. Inside, the rectory includes stone chimney-pieces in three ground-floor rooms, adorned with purpose-made polychrome tiles. In the drawing-room, the fireplace has a window directly above it, with tiled reveals that display the original owner's initials, S.B.T.

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 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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