The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Crawley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 June 1948. House.
The Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- bitter-basalt-yew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Crawley
- Constituency
- Crawley MP: Peter Lamb (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 June 1948
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Rectory, Rectory Lane
- OS grid reference
- TQ 247 377
- Coordinates
- 51.12589, -0.21804
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory is an early 19th-century residence located on Rectory Lane in Ifield. This two-storey building features stucco faced walls and a low pitched Welsh slate roof with deep projecting eaves supported by paired brackets. The east front has a recessed center flanked by shallow wings, each topped with low-pitched triangular gables. There are five sash windows with glazing bars, and a Doric porch with a pair of columns in antis. On the west side, the building has two shallow wings with hipped roofs, and there is a conservatory on the south side. To the north, there are considerable office buildings. The rectory was likely built or rebuilt by Reverend Spencer James Lewin, who served as the Vicar of Ifield from 1790 to 1842 and was also the Rector of Crawley.
Local climate
The Old Rectory receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% 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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