The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 April 1967. A C18 House. 1 related planning application.

The Old Rectory

WRENN ID
stark-grate-rook
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Berkshire
Constituency
Reading West and Mid Berkshire MP: Olivia Bailey (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 April 1967
Type
House
Address
The Old Rectory, Sulhamstead Hill, RG7 4DB
OS grid reference
SU 631 690
Coordinates
51.4168, -1.09332
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old Rectory is a house dating from the early 18th century, with alterations and additions made around 1900. It is built of tuck pointed red brick and features a hipped tile roof. The building has two storeys and an attic, with a plaster plat band, a moulded wooden cornice, and a coped parapet that includes embrasures for two flat-topped dormers with two-light casements. There is an end stack to the left and an off-centre stack to the right. The facade consists of five bays with glazing bar sashes that have exposed wooden boxes. The central entrance has a four-panelled door with a rectangular overlight, framed by a doorcase with reeded architrave, Doric pilasters, and cut brackets that support a boxed triangular pediment set back to the left. There are later projecting segmental bays on the right and at the rear. Inside, the house features a two-flight dog-leg staircase with square newels, turned balusters, and a moulded handrail, along with fireplaces that have lugged architraves and pulvinated friezes, and a shell niche buffet.

Local climate

The Old Rectory receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 64% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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