The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Adur local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 October 1954. Rectory. 1 related planning application.
The Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- hidden-courtyard-sepia
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Adur
- Constituency
- East Worthing and Shoreham MP: Tom Rutland (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 October 1954
- Type
- Rectory
- Address
- The Old Rectory, West Street, Sompting, BN15 0DA
- OS grid reference
- TQ 167 052
- Coordinates
- 50.83481, -0.34277
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory is a late 18th-century building consisting of two parallel ranges. It is two storeys high with an attic and features five windows and three dormers. The exterior is faced with Roman cement and includes a string course and a parapet. The roof is mansarded and covered with tiles, and the glazing bars are intact. There is a porch supported by a coupled column and a plain pilaster on each side.
Local climate
The Old Rectory receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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 — 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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