The Old Rectory with Attached Crinkle Crankle Wall is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 March 1988. House.
The Old Rectory with Attached Crinkle Crankle Wall
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 March 1988
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- TM 017 765
- Coordinates
- 52.34987, 0.96079
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory, a former rectory, dates from the early 19th century, possibly with earlier origins, and was extended in the late 19th century. It features a timber frame with red brick ends, a rear, and various additions, all plastered and partly colourwashed. The building has a hipped slate roof and consists of three unevenly spaced bays across two storeys. The entrance is slightly off centre and includes a half-glazed door with a reeded doorcase that has an intersecting Gothic arcaded frieze. The first floor has 16-pane glazing bar sash windows with upper margin glazing. The eaves are lozenge boarded, and there is a cross axial white brick ridge stack to the left of centre. The left end has a truncated external stack, and there are two bays of sashes and French windows. At the rear right, there is a stack on the ridge of a two-storey, two-bay late 19th-century addition with segmental-headed sash windows. Inside, there is an early 19th-century staircase with slat balusters and a ramped handrail. The ground floor room to the right features a reused bar stop-chamfered axial binding beam, and the end wall has reconstructed framing with a restored seven-light mullioned window. Attached to the front right of the house is a crinkle crankle wall that is about 30 metres long and 2 to 3 metres high, with an opening near the house that has been partially rebuilt.
Local climate
The Old Rectory with Attached Crinkle Crankle Wall 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 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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