The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 July 1963. Rectory.
The Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- south-bronze-wren
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 July 1963
- Type
- Rectory
- Address
- The Old Rectory, Stoke Talmage
- OS grid reference
- SU 677 993
- Coordinates
- 51.68841, -1.02071
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory is a former rectory, now a house, built in 1752 and remodelled and extended to the left by Daniel Harris in 1820. The building features a stucco front over brick, an M-shaped old tile roof, and symmetrical brick end stacks. It has a double-depth plan, with two storeys and an attic, and a symmetrical three-window range. The entrance includes an early 19th-century panelled door and doorcase with a flat hood, flanked by six-pane sash windows that reach to the ground. There are six-pane sash windows on the first floor and a cyma-moulded soffit to the parapet. The house also has 19th-century dormers.
At the rear, there is a right canted bay dating from around 1860, with adjoining sashes and a round-arched stair-light sash. To the left of the front, there is a two-storey, two-bay wing that is stuccoed and has sash windows, along with 18th-century two- and one-storey service wings at the rear left. Inside, the property features early 19th-century doors and a dog-leg staircase with turned balusters on an open string.
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 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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