The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 March 1985. Rectory.
The Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- sharp-turret-ash
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 March 1985
- Type
- Rectory
- Address
- The Old Rectory, 1, the Street, Fornham St. Martin
- OS grid reference
- TL 853 669
- Coordinates
- 52.26915, 0.71447
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory is a former rectory dating from the early 19th century. It is two storeys high and constructed of white brick, featuring pilasters at the corners. The building has a slate roof with a wide eaves overhang and a paired modillion cornice. There are chimney stacks with plain shafts. The front has a three-window range, with small-paned sash windows set in deep reveals and flat arches, and early 20th-century slatted external shutters on all windows. Access is provided by steps leading up to a Tuscan portico, which features a half-glazed four-panelled door.
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 93% 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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