Old Rectory is a Grade II* listed building in the Test Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 May 1957. A Georgian Rectory.
Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- plain-passage-dust
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Test Valley
- Constituency
- Romsey and Southampton North MP: Caroline Nokes (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 May 1957
- Type
- Rectory
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- Old Rectory, Church Lane, Houghton
- OS grid reference
- SU 341 326
- Coordinates
- 51.09214, -1.51329
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory, now a private house, is a Grade II* listed building dating from the mid-18th century, with extensions added in the early 19th century. It is constructed of brick with blue headers on the ends and has an old plain tile roof. The building is two stories high with an attic above a raised basement and features five original bays, with two additional bays added to the right and some extensions to the rear in the early 19th century.
The original part of the house has T-shaped steps leading up to the central bay, which has a wrought iron handrail, rebuilt in the 20th century. There are some casement windows in the basement. The central doorcase is flanked by pilasters and supports an open pediment. Inside, there is a semi-circular fanlight above a half-glazed door. Each side of the door are two 12-pane sash windows under rubbed brick heads, with blind boxes and stone sills. The first floor features five similar sash windows. A moulded timber cornice runs along the top of the building, and above the three central bays is a brick pediment with a bullseye window and a moulded timber architrave. Each side of the pediment has two 2-light hip-roofed casements. There are large ridge stacks at each end of the original part of the house. The added two bays are slightly set back and have four similar sash windows without blind boxes. All the sashes to the right of the door have thick glazing bars, and the cornice is carried through. The interior contains features of interest from the 18th century.
Local climate
Old Rectory receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings