The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Rother local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 June 1991. Rectory. 1 related planning application.
The Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- twisted-ashlar-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rother
- Constituency
- Bexhill and Battle MP: Dr Kieran Mullan (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 June 1991
- Type
- Rectory
- Address
- The Old Rectory, Eatenden Lane, Battle
- OS grid reference
- TQ 725 186
- Coordinates
- 50.94175, 0.45405
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory is a former vicarage, now a house, dating to 1859. It was designed by Samuel Sanders Teulon, who also designed the adjoining church and school. The building is constructed in red brick in Flemish bond, with stone dressings and polychrome brickwork. It is built in an asymmetrical Gothic style, with a tiled roof featuring bands of curved tiles and five brick chimney stacks.
The north-west, or entrance, front is two storeys and includes a left-side gable and a pointed two-light oriel with a lead roof. Below the oriel is an arched doorcase with corbel heads and colonnettes. To the right of the oriel is an arched staircase window, stepped at the bottom with a paired lancet window below. At the extreme right is an external brick chimney stack with a stone arched feature including a carved dragon’s head. A two-storey link block connects to the main building, featuring a right-side single arched mullioned and transomed window and a first-floor two-light mullioned and transomed window, alongside a ground-floor triple mullioned and transomed window. A service wing to the extreme north-west bears the lettering “AD 1859” and the initials “VR” and “PC” in polychrome brickwork, along with arched windows. The first-floor elevation has two gables, the left of which is larger than the right; the left displays a triple mullioned and transomed window to the first floor, with a three-light bay to the ground floor, while the right has a double mullioned and transomed window on both floors. A corner octagonal turret features arched windows, an arched doorcase, and a lead and metal finial. The south-west front has an external chimney stack with polychrome decoration, a large gable with a triple arched mullioned and transomed window, a link block with a dormer incorporating a double mullioned and transomed window, and ground floor double arched windows. A single-storey lean-to service wing features diaper and cross decoration in polychrome brickwork and an arched doorcase.
The interior includes an oak staircase in a Jacobean style, with splat balusters. Further internal features may exist.
Local climate
The Old Rectory receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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