The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 April 1986. House. 1 related planning application.
The Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- broken-entrance-river
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Lowestoft MP: Jess Asato (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 April 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Rectory, Church Road, Gisleham, NR33 8DS
- OS grid reference
- TM 514 886
- Coordinates
- 52.43795, 1.69853
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory is a house that was formerly used as a rectory. It features a front block from the late 18th century, while the rear range is from the earlier 18th century but may have an older core. The building is constructed of colourwashed brick and has a roof made of glazed black pantiles. It stands two storeys tall with an attic at the rear.
The front has three windows: on the first floor, there are sashes with glazing bars in flush frames, set under slightly cambered brick arches and within larger segmental-arched recesses. The ground floor has tripartite sashes with blind boxes. The entrance boasts a notable doorway with a six-panel door (the upper two panels are glazed), flanked by panelled pilasters, a fluted frieze with medallions, and a dentil cornice. Above the door is a segmental fanlight.
A wide, semi-elliptical porch features a leaded domed roof supported by tapering fluted columns and pilasters. The building also has a projecting eaves cornice. To the left, there is a later single-storey addition that includes two tripartite sash windows.
Local climate
The Old Rectory receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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