The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Bath and North East Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 December 1985. House.
The Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- lunar-mantel-ebony
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Constituency
- Frome and East Somerset MP: Anna Sabine (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 December 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Rectory, Marksbury
- OS grid reference
- ST 678 627
- Coordinates
- 51.36263, -2.46346
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory is a house dating from the late 18th century, with possibly earlier origins and a mid-19th century extension. It is constructed of rubble with freestone dressings and ashlar, topped with a slate mansard roof featuring raised, coped verges. The building has two storeys and an attic, with four windows on the front. The first-floor windows are sashes, as are those in the lean-to ground floor extension, which has shallow recessed arches for both the windows and doors. There are two hipped dormers on the roof.
The projecting left wing is two storeys high with three windows, featuring sashes on the first floor, while the ground floor has been blocked and altered. The rear elevation includes four windows, plus two in a lower hipped wing to the right. The mansard roof is visible with four hipped dormers, while the remainder is obscured by a mid-19th century L-plan wing that has tripartite French windows below and similar sashes above, along with a plain parapet. The right wing contains 16-pane sashes and one 20th-century casement window.
Local climate
The Old Rectory receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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