The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 March 1987. A Georgian Rectory.

The Old Rectory

WRENN ID
small-balcony-flax
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Suffolk
Constituency
Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 March 1987
Type
Rectory
Period
Georgian
Address
The Old Rectory, Mickfield
OS grid reference
TM 134 614
Coordinates
52.21015, 1.12254
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old Rectory is a former rectory with an early 17th century core that was remodeled in the early 19th century in the Gothick style. The building is timber-framed and plastered, featuring a deep coved cornice beneath the eaves. The side and rear walls are mostly encased in early 19th century gault brick. The roof is covered with plain tiles, and the ornate bargeboards have a scrolled pendant frieze. An axial chimney made of early 19th century gault brick has three square shafts with moulded caps and bases, one of which has been altered. Each shaft has a sunk panel beneath it.

The building has a three-cell lobby-entrance plan and is two storeys high, partly with attics. It features good early 19th century windows, including three splayed bays on the ground floor with flat roofs and small-pane sashes. Above each sash are three small glazed trefoiled heads with sunk spandrels. On the first storey, there are four-light leaded casements, each light topped with a trefoiled head. The matching entrance porch is flat-roofed, with fluted pilasters and a six-panelled door, the upper panels being glazed. The fanlight has a pair of trefoil-headed lights with enriched spandrels. Inside, the parlour to the right features a 17th century ovolo-moulded beam, while most of the other framing is concealed. The roof has a butt-purl. To the left, there is a rear 18th century timber-framed service wing that has been extensively remodeled in the early 19th century.

Local climate

The Old Rectory sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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