The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 November 1954. Rectory. 9 related planning applications.
The Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- night-steel-lake
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 November 1954
- Type
- Rectory
- Address
- The Old Rectory, Norton Road, Tostock, IP30 9NU
- OS grid reference
- TL 951 638
- Coordinates
- 52.23844, 0.85735
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory is a former rectory dating to around 1800, with extensions added in the early 19th century. It is constructed of gault brick, with a hipped roof covered in graded Welsh slates and internal chimneys of gault brick. The building has two storeys and five windows on its front facade. The windows are small-pane sashes with flat arches formed with gauged brick. Four Ionic pilasters, constructed from buff terracotta or limestone, rise through both storeys of the central bays to support a shallow pediment featuring plain moulded woodwork. The front door has eight sunk panels, and above it is a shallow arch in two orders of gauged brick, topped with a small semicircular fanlight with radiating bars.
The interior of the front range features restrained plasterwork and joinery dating to around 1800, including Flaxman ovals and panels over doors. A staircase within the inner hall has a wrought iron balustrade. It is believed that one room contains fluted Ionic columns and a bedroom has a ceiling in the style of Adam. An early 19th-century addition of one and one windows was built to the right of the original building, alongside a larger extension to the rear. To the right and left of the main building are semi-elliptical screen walls, approximately 2.5 metres high and made of gault brick with a band mid-height. An archway at the centre has wrought iron fencing within the lower part.
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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2022
- Related listed building consents — 9 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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