Culverhouse at the Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 May 1967. Gazebo.
Culverhouse at the Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- lesser-lead-sepia
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- Truro and Falmouth MP: Jayne Kirkham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 May 1967
- Type
- Gazebo
- Address
- Culverhouse at the Old Rectory, St. Allen
- OS grid reference
- SW 822 506
- Coordinates
- 50.31544, -5.05929
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Culverhouse at the Old Rectory is a gazebo-style structure from the early to mid-19th century, located in St Allen Village. It is built of stone and features a slate roof. The plan is octagonal, with a door on the west side. There is a pointed arched opening and a boarded door, along with simple rectangular windows on each face at ground floor level. Flight holes are present beneath the eaves above, with a slate ledge on each side. The finial is missing.
Inside, the upper floor contains 12 nest boxes arranged in a single row in the west quadrant. The roof is supported by curved timber with a straight central crosspiece and radial rafters.
Local climate
Culverhouse at the Old Rectory receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 6 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings