The Old Rectory and Rectory Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Bath and North East Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 August 1984. House. 8 related planning applications.
The Old Rectory and Rectory Cottage
- WRENN ID
- keen-portal-fog
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Constituency
- Frome and East Somerset MP: Anna Sabine (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 August 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Rectory and Rectory Cottage, Claverton, BA2 7BG
- OS grid reference
- ST 788 640
- Coordinates
- 51.37549, -2.30482
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory and Rectory Cottage are two houses, originally a rectory, dating from the late 17th century. The building was largely rebuilt and extended to the north in 1852. The south-facing garden elevation comprises the original 17th-century section, constructed of random rubble with freestone quoins and dressings, and covered by a pantiled roof. It features ashlar stacks with cornices and has a single storey with attics arranged in three steep gables, each topped with finials. There are three windows with two and three lights, featuring ovolo moulded mullions, surrounds, and dripmoulds. A door is positioned to the right, set within a moulded surround with a four-centred head. The 19th-century extension is centrally located and built of coursed and squared freestone with a slate roof concealed behind a parapet. It rises to two storeys and attics, with two steep gables. The facade has three bays, with two-storey canted bay windows in the outer bays. Cross windows with ovolo moulded surrounds are located on the ground floor, while two-light casements are in the attic. The road elevation of the main house displays five bays, featuring cross windows and two stepped gables on the parapet. A central, projecting two-storey porch is present, characterized by a curvilinear gable and a datestone. A plank door is set within a four-centre hooded surround. The original 17th-century section retains a single gable and a projecting wing to the right, incorporating two pointed-arch windows. Rectory Cottage is attached to the north and has two storeys with two two-light casement windows. Dormer windows are situated at the rear. A central plank door, set within a plain surround and beneath a flat stone hood supported by brackets, provides entry.
Local climate
The Old Rectory and Rectory Cottage receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% 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.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2007
- Related listed building consents — 8 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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