The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 January 1985. Rectory.
The Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- lost-railing-lichen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 January 1985
- Type
- Rectory
- Address
- The Old Rectory, the Street, Market Weston
- OS grid reference
- TL 980 776
- Coordinates
- 52.36117, 0.90714
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory is a former rectory dating from the early 19th century. It is a two-storey building that is timber-framed and rendered, topped with a slate roof featuring overhanging eaves. The soffit of the eaves is decorated with a distinctive raised lozenge motif. The building has small-paned sash windows in flush frames on both storeys, with the upper storey windows being shorter and having half-length panes at the top and bottom. Below a portico supported by fluted columns and pilasters, there are half-glazed double doors adorned with a Doric frieze and cornice. The garden front features four long late 19th-century French windows on the ground floor and four small-paned sash windows with half-panes at the top and bottom on the upper storey. To the east, there is a two-storey 19th-century extension that includes casement windows.
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 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% 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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