The Old Rectory is a Grade II* listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 November 1954. A Georgian Former rectory. 8 related planning applications.
The Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- standing-cloister-furze
- 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
- Former rectory
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- The Old Rectory, the Street, Drinkstone, IP30 9SR
- OS grid reference
- TL 959 618
- Coordinates
- 52.22003, 0.86772
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory is a former rectory dating to approximately 1760, built for Rev. Richard Moseley. It is constructed of red brick with rusticated quoins and an eaves cornice featuring modillions. The building has hipped slated roofs with internal red brick chimneys. The main range has five windows, and a lower, set-back service range to the left with three windows. The windows are small-pane sashes with flat arches of gauged brick, and a Venetian window above the entrance illuminates the staircase hall. A prominent entrance doorway is accessed by a flight of five steps, leading to a pair of doors with three fielded panels and an oblong fanlight with intersecting bars. The doorway is flanked by panelled pilasters and topped with a segmental pediment supported by massive, enriched console brackets. The interior features three reception rooms with full-height panelling and fireplaces. Two rooms on the first storey are also fully panelled. The staircase has closely-spaced slender turned balusters, wreathed handrails, and console brackets beneath each tread.
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 — 4 transactions since 2004
- Related listed building consents — 8 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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