Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 November 1954. Rectory.
Rectory
- WRENN ID
- under-cloister-scarlet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 November 1954
- Type
- Rectory
- Address
- Rectory, Church Street, Wrentham
- OS grid reference
- TM 488 830
- Coordinates
- 52.38859, 1.65584
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Rectory is a building from the mid-18th century that has undergone later alterations. Extensive rear additions from 1842, along with some earlier work, were demolished during modernization in 1953. The structure is made of colourwashed brick and features a hipped roof covered with glazed black pantiles. It has two storeys and an attic, with a six-bay facade that includes brick pilasters on the left and between the fifth and sixth bays. The sash windows, which have glazing bars in flush frames, are topped with slightly cambered brick arches; the first-floor windows have larger panes that are of a later date.
A notable feature is the two-storey Gothick porch, dating from around 1840, constructed of brick and topped with a crenellated parapet. It has a panelled wooden doorway surround and a two-centre entrance arch that contains a modern door and a glazed tympanum. Above the porch, there is a three-light first-floor window with small panes and cusped ogee heads. Inside the porch, there is a doorway with an inset six-panel entrance door, where the upper two panels are glazed, along with a semi-circular fanlight with glazing bars, panelled reveals, and early 19th-century Roman Doric pilasters. At the right gable end, the first floor overhangs, supported by three iron columns. The interior features an 18th-century staircase with turned balusters.
Local climate
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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