The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Wealden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 August 1966. Rectory. 2 related planning applications.

The Old Rectory

WRENN ID
drifting-gallery-soot
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wealden
Constituency
Lewes MP: James MacCleary (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 August 1966
Type
Rectory
Address
The Old Rectory, Church Lane, Chalvington with Ripe, BN8 6AU
OS grid reference
TQ 513 098
Coordinates
50.86803, 0.14898
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old Rectory is an early 19th-century building that stands two storeys high. It features four windows on the east side and two on the south. The exterior is faced with Roman cement, while the south front is painted. The building has an eaves bracket cornice and a hipped slate roof, with intact glazing bars. There is a small porch on the west front, accessed by five steps, which has a pediment above it. The round-headed doorway within the porch has a semi-circular fanlight and a door made up of six fielded panels. To the north, there is a service wing constructed of red brick with grey headers, which has two windows.

Local climate

The Old Rectory receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% 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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