The Old Rectory, with Boundary Walls is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 November 1959. Residential. 4 related planning applications.
The Old Rectory, with Boundary Walls
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 November 1959
- Type
- Residential
- Address
- The Old Rectory, with Boundary Walls, High Street, Langton Matravers
- OS grid reference
- SY 998 788
- Coordinates
- 50.60977, -2.00339
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory, formerly known as The Rectory, is a former rectory that has been converted into a private house, with part of it serving as a residential home. The original building dates back to the 17th century and was enlarged to the north and east in the 19th century. The original section features rubble stone walls and a stone slate roof, with a brick end stack. It is two storeys high. On the garden front, the ground floor has two 3-light and two 2-light stone mullioned windows, all with hoodmoulds and sashes. The first floor contains four similar 2-light windows.
To the right, there is an early to mid-19th century two-storey extension, which is at a higher level and also has rubble stone walls and a stone slate roof with brick end stacks. This extension features a pair of French doors and one fixed window on the ground floor, while the first floor has one sash window with a central glazing bar.
A large, later 19th-century two-storey extension on the north side forms the entrance front. It has rock-faced ashlar walls and a slate roof, with two stone stacks rising from the eaves. The entrance features a panelled door and fanlight set in a segmental pointed arch, complete with a hoodmould. The ground floor includes three sash windows with glazing bars beneath stone lintels and relieving arches, and the first floor has four sash windows with glazing bars.
There is also a 20th-century single-storey stone extension at the left end. Inside, the original section boasts a large fireplace that includes a bread oven, which has been partly built up. The property is surrounded by rubble stone boundary walls at the front and side, topped with flat stone coping.
Local climate
The Old Rectory, with Boundary Walls receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% 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 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2016
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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