The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Dover local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 May 1987. House.

The Old Rectory

WRENN ID
silver-step-elder
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dover
Constituency
Dover and Deal MP: Mike Tapp (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 May 1987
Type
House
Address
The Old Rectory, Wootton Lane, Denton with Wootton
OS grid reference
TR 223 463
Coordinates
51.17293, 1.17949
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old Rectory is a house with an early 18th-century exterior that was extended in 1879. It is built of red brick and has a plain tiled roof. The entrance front features two storeys and an attic, set on a plinth with a plat band and a moulded modillion eaves cornice. The roof has two flat dormers and stacks on both sides. The windows are arranged irregularly, with two glazing bar sashes on the first floor, a centrally placed stair window (also a glazing bar sash), a one-storey bay window to the left, and two glazing bar sashes on the ground floor. The central door consists of six raised and fielded panels and is set in a simple columned porch.

To the right, there is a large 19th-century projection, marked with a date stone from 1879, which is two storeys high and has stacks on both sides. This projection features one glazing bar sash and one wooden casement on the first floor, and two glazing bar sashes along with one wooden casement on the ground floor. The garden front reportedly has a six-bay elevation with a modillion eaves cornice and a half-hipped roof. It includes a central two-storey porch with an elliptical doorway and a jettied first floor that has a Venetian window. The interior is also believed to be of older origin. The house was originally built in the early 17th century for Reverend James Janeway, who served as Rector from 1712 to 1739.

Local climate

The Old Rectory receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% 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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