The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1952. House. 1 related planning application.
The Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- small-groin-russet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swale
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Rectory, Lower Road, Norton, Buckland and Stone, ME9 9LF
- OS grid reference
- TQ 975 621
- Coordinates
- 51.32384, 0.83349
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory is a house dating from the 16th century, originally listed as the Old Vicarage. It is timber framed and largely exposed, with plaster infill between the framing members. The roof is thatched, and the building exhibits a three-bay layout with a lobby entry. It is two storeys in height, featuring a continuous jetty supported on dragon posts. A central left stack rises from the roof, which is hipped. The first floor has four wooden casement windows, and the ground floor has three, along with a plank and stud door positioned centrally to the left. The right return front has a mullioned oriel window.
Local climate
The Old Rectory sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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 — 1 transaction since 2012
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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