The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 October 1984. House.

The Old Rectory

WRENN ID
vast-pewter-kestrel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Suffolk
Constituency
West Suffolk MP: Nick Timothy (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
16 October 1984
Type
House
Address
The Old Rectory, Elveden
OS grid reference
TL 829 797
Coordinates
52.38524, 0.68699
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old Rectory is a house that was formerly a rectory, built in the mid-18th century with alterations made in the late 19th century. It has two storeys and attics, featuring three windows and set-back flanking lean-to wings that are one window wide. The building is constructed of red brick with random burnt headers, and it has a string course at the first floor and a dentil course at the eaves. The roof is hipped and covered with plain tiles, featuring gabled dormers with bargeboards that have fretted soffits. At the rear, there are 19th-century chimneys made of red brick.

The entrance is flanked by a pair of hipped, plain-tiled, one-storey bay windows from the 19th century, which have small-pane sash windows and side-lights. The mid-18th-century entrance doorway has a six-fielded-panelled door, a moulded architrave, and a pediment supported by console brackets. The flanking wings date from the 18th century and have curved 19th-century parapets and slated roofs, with 18th-century small-pane sash windows and a small circular window above lighting the attic. At the rear, there is a large two-storey service wing from the 19th century, built of flint rubble with red brick quoins and a hipped pantiled roof.

Local climate

The Old Rectory sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% 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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