The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1983. Former rectory.

The Old Rectory

WRENN ID
moated-entrance-alder
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Suffolk
Constituency
Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 December 1983
Type
Former rectory
Address
The Old Rectory, Up Street, Bardwell
OS grid reference
TL 943 737
Coordinates
52.32769, 0.85018
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old Rectory is a former rectory with a core dating back to the 16th century and extensive additions from the early 19th century. The building has a complex and irregular plan, with sections that are part one and a half storeys and part two storeys. The oldest section features a T-shaped plan, constructed with timber framing and plaster, along with early 19th century roughcast panels on the south side and comb-patterning on the west. It has two carved brackets at the eaves of the gable end.

There is an early 19th century single-storey semi-circular extension on the south side made of white brick with a flat lead roof. This section includes one large small-paned sash window and a gabled dormer. To the north, there is a two-storey white brick extension featuring a sash window set in deep reveals. The main range on the southeast side, also from the early 19th century, is two storeys high, constructed of white brick with a string course and a slate roof. It has three small-paned sash windows and a doorway at the west end with a rounded arch and a semi-circular fanlight, though the door itself is from the 20th century. The east side has four blank windows.

The original part of the house has plain clasped purlin roofs without principal rafters. A small north-south range was converted into a stair wing in the mid-18th century, featuring a plaster cornice inside with egg-and-dart decoration and a well-crafted dog-leg stair with turned balusters.

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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