The Old Rectory is a Grade II* listed building in the Winchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 December 1955. Rectory.
The Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- odd-rood-river
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Winchester
- Constituency
- Winchester MP: Dr Danny Chambers (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 December 1955
- Type
- Rectory
- Address
- The Old Rectory, Bighton
- OS grid reference
- SU 610 344
- Coordinates
- 51.10613, -1.12895
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory is a private house that was originally a rectory, with significant remodelling around 1734 and further alterations in the early 20th century. The building is constructed of brick, with colourwashed extensions and weatherboarding on brick plinths, topped by an old plain tiled roof. It is a double pile, five-bay house with a church hall added to the right in 1910, and an earlier service wing at the center of the rear.
The front elevation features two storeys and an attic, with five bays. The central front door is topped and middle glazed, set within a stone lugged architrave and has a segmental moulded hood above at the level of the first-floor string course. On either side of the door are two 12-pane sash windows in flush frames, each with rubbed brick arches. The first-floor string course is made of moulded brick, and the first floor has five 12-pane flush frame sashes. Above this is a large moulded stone eaves cornice. The roof is half-hipped and includes two small hipped roof dormers with two-light casements. There are symmetrical large gable stacks on the exterior.
To the right, the single-storey, two-bay wing, originally the church hall, is weatherboarded and features a large Venetian-style French window. Inside, there is an early 18th-century staircase with delicate turned balusters, a moulded handrail, and cut spandrels, which has been sympathetically extended in the 20th century to reach the second-floor contemporary panelled central room and the massive back door in the kitchen.
Local climate
The 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 lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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