Old Rectory Cottage the Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 May 1989. Rectory. 2 related planning applications.
Old Rectory Cottage the Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- guardian-glass-bistre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 May 1989
- Type
- Rectory
- Address
- Old Rectory Cottage the Old Rectory, Lezant, PL15 9PP
- OS grid reference
- SX 337 791
- Coordinates
- 50.58829, -4.35041
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory Cottage is part of what was originally a rectory, built between 1826 and 1830. A later service range was added in the 19th century. The building is constructed of stuccoed slate-stone with hipped slate roofs, some of which are hidden behind a parapet. The main, three-by-three bay range is gabled at the rear. It has a plinth, moulded eaves cornice, and a parapet. The front elevation features a three-window design. The upper floor has six-pane sashes, and a nine-pane sash with glazing bars flanks a prominent 20th-century glazed porch. The porch provides access to a central, eight-panel double door with glazed side panels and a wreathed and radiating fanlight. Chimneys are positioned behind the ridge to the left and to the right of centre. A tall, round-headed sash window lights the staircase on the left return. The right return, similarly in three bays, includes a slightly projecting pedimented break on the right side, featuring glazing bar sashes. The property includes a cellar. Glazing bar sashes are also found on the rear and in the former service range, now known as Old Rectory Cottage. Inside the main range, a round-headed arch leads to a back entrance hall with a dog-leg staircase on the left. This staircase features circular newels, stick balusters (two per tread), and a carved open string. A room at the rear on the right side has a moulded plaster cornice and a bolection-moulded fireplace. Panelled doors and window shutters are present throughout.
Local climate
Old Rectory Cottage the Old Rectory sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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 2015
- 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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