The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 July 1963. A C19 Rectory, house. 5 related planning applications.
The Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- tattered-rubble-curlew
- 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, house
- Address
- The Old Rectory, Brightwell Baldwin, OX49 5NW
- OS grid reference
- SU 656 950
- Coordinates
- 51.6505, -1.05304
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory is a house that was originally built as a rectory around 1800. It features a rendered exterior and an M-shaped mansard roof covered with Welsh slate, along with rendered end stacks. The building is designed in a late Georgian style and has a double-depth plan, standing two storeys high with an attic and a three-window range. The entrance includes a six-panelled door with a large decorative overlight, flanked by six-pane sash windows, all set in tall round-arched reveals. The first floor has three-pane sash windows. The building has a parapet and two roof dormers. Inside, there are panelled doors and shutters, moulded reeded cornices, and fireplaces. Notably, there are large double-leaf doors set in a moulded architrave between the front and rear rooms on the right side. The Old Rectory is depicted on the 1802 Enclosure Map.
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 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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