Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 December 1955. Rectory.
Rectory
- WRENN ID
- sacred-spire-willow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Banbury MP: Sean Woodcock (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 December 1955
- Type
- Rectory
- Address
- Rectory, Main Street, Wigginton
- OS grid reference
- SP 389 333
- Coordinates
- 51.99696, -1.43399
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Rectory, now a house, was built around 1844 by John Pritchard of Oxford. It is constructed from regularly coursed ironstone rubble and has a 20th-century tile roof. The building features four stone stacks: two on the ridge, one at the end, and one lateral. It is designed in the Tudor revival style and has an L-plan layout.
The garden front consists of two sections. The right part has two plus one storeys and three bays, with a central French window. To the right, there is a gabled two-storey bay window, while the left gabled bay features a six-light window on the ground floor, a three-light window on the first floor, and a two-light window in the attic. Above the door, there is a four-light window. Most of the windows are stone mullioned with transoms, hood moulds, label stops, margin lights, and stone relieving arches, and the gables have stone copings.
The left part of the building has one plus one storeys and a central lateral stone stack. It includes a four-light window to the right and a three-light window in the attic, both of which are mullioned and transomed. At the rear, there is a gabled porch with stone copings, a shield, and a four-centred doorway. The Rectory was built on the site of a glebe farmhouse, of which it incorporates a part. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Rectory receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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