The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1955. Rectory.
The Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- scarred-spire-moon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 December 1955
- Type
- Rectory
- Address
- The Old Rectory, Parsons Lane, Barking
- OS grid reference
- TM 076 536
- Coordinates
- 52.14233, 1.03298
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory is a former rectory built in 1819 by William Brown of Ipswich for the Reverend C. Davy. It is constructed of gault brick and features a limestone string course beneath the first-storey windows. The building has a hipped slated roof with a wide eaves overhang and consists of two storeys above a basement, with five windows. The windows are small-pane sashes set within flat arches of gauged brick. The central entrance bay is designed as a portico in antis, supported by giant Tuscan columns and topped with a pediment that has a moulded wooden cornice. The entrance includes a pair of three-panelled doors and a semi-circular fanlight with radial bars. Inside, there is an octagonal entrance hall featuring a geometric staircase.
Local climate
The Old Rectory 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 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% 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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