The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Portsmouth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 October 1969. Villa. 1 related planning application.

The Old Rectory

WRENN ID
spare-flagstone-plover
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Portsmouth
Constituency
Portsmouth North MP: Amanda Martin (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 October 1969
Type
Villa
Address
The Old Rectory, 353 and 355, Havant Road, City of Portsmouth, PO6 1AA
OS grid reference
SU 686 058
Coordinates
50.84817, -1.02657
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old Rectory is a villa built around 1825, featuring a stucco exterior and a hipped Welsh slate roof with rendered stacks on both sides. The building has two storeys, an attic at the rear, and three bays, with the center bay projecting. Facing Havant Road, the central bay includes a two-leaf margin glazed French casement set within a shallow bow, which is adorned with a projecting trellised verandah that has a tented roof, cornice, and blocking course with rounded terminal caps. On either side of the central bay, there are 12-pane sash windows, each located in round-headed recesses with wreath ornamentation in the tympanum. The first floor features three 12-pane sashes beneath projecting bracketed eaves, and the central bay has a pediment.

On the right side of the building, which is six bays wide, there are two blinded windows followed by a six-panelled door with a radial glazed fanlight set under a segmental arch. This door is sheltered by an open projecting porch with segmented arches, pilasters, square columns, a cornice, and a blocking course. To the right, there are two more 12-pane sashes. The left side also has an entrance with a segmental headed porch. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

The Old Rectory receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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