The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Sussex local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 May 1983. House. 2 related planning applications.
The Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- patient-jamb-smoke
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Sussex
- Constituency
- East Grinstead and Uckfield MP: Mims Davies (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 May 1983
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Rectory, Mill Lane, Balcombe, RH17 6NS
- OS grid reference
- TQ 313 305
- Coordinates
- 51.0594, -0.1274
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory is a half H-shaped house from the early 19th century, standing two storeys tall with seven windows. It is faced with Roman cement and features an eaves bracket cornice and a hipped slate roof. The glazing bars are intact. A central porch supported by Doric columns leads to a doorway with a semi-circular fanlight. The wings of the house may have been added later.
Local climate
The Old Rectory receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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 — 2 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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