The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Folkestone and Hythe local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 January 1975. Rectory, house. 2 related planning applications.
The Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- grey-hall-soot
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Folkestone and Hythe
- Constituency
- Ashford MP: Sojan Joseph (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 January 1975
- Type
- Rectory, house
- Address
- The Old Rectory, Acrise, CT18 8LJ
- OS grid reference
- TR 197 429
- Coordinates
- 51.14323, 1.13969
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory is a late 18th-century rectory, subsequently used as a house, with alterations from the 19th and 20th centuries. It is rendered with a slate roof and has a hipped roof to the front of the projecting cross-wing. The central section has a coped parapet, while the right section has a plain 20th-century parapet of the same height, with hipped roofs to the left and right sides. Stacks are rendered, located to the left side of the wing and at the rear, centrally and to the right. The fenestration is irregular, featuring six recessed sash windows with thin glazing bars. The front gable end of the wing has two large twelve-pane sashes, the central section has two smaller twelve-pane sashes, and the right section has two sixteen-pane sashes set lower, each with narrow margin lights and rectangular fanlights. A recessed Soaneian doorway occupies the ground floor of the central section, with a half-glazed door and flanking windows, all under an attenuated segmental fanlight with thin glazing bars; a similar, internal doorway is located to the rear of the entrance lobby. A rendered single-storey addition, with a hip slate roof and a plain parapet, projects forward with a full-height canted bay containing three tall recessed eight-pane sashes. A painted iron verandah with a swept roof, purportedly from a house in Harbledown, is located to the left side of the left wing. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
The Old Rectory receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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
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