The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 May 1988. Rectory. 4 related planning applications.
The Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- lost-roof-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 May 1988
- Type
- Rectory
- Address
- The Old Rectory, the Street, Stowlangtoft, IP31 3JR
- OS grid reference
- TL 957 681
- Coordinates
- 52.27708, 0.8675
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory is a former rectory dating from around 1832. It is constructed of gault brick with a hipped, slated roof and internal chimneys also of gault brick. The main range is two storeys high and has three windows. To the left is a lower, two-storey service range, set back, with four windows. The windows are small-pane sashes, with moulded cast iron lintels. Dummy windows are present at both levels on the right-hand side, while a ground-floor window on the left has been replaced in the 20th century with a pair of French doors. A pair of three-panelled entrance doors with sidelights and an oblong fanlight are sheltered by a Doric portico porch with a flat entablature supported by a pair of columns. The garden elevation to the right features five windows, all with sashes as described above.
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 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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 — 1 transaction since 2025
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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