The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 October 1960. House. 2 related planning applications.
The Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- lone-span-harvest
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 October 1960
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Rectory, Greenhayes, Okeford Fitzpaine, DT11 0RE
- OS grid reference
- ST 806 108
- Coordinates
- 50.89694, -2.2764
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory is a house located in Okeford Fitzpaine, built in the mid-18th century for Reverend Duke Butler. The building is rendered above a rubble plinth and features a tiled roof with stone slate verges and end brick stacks. It has a symmetrical facade with two storeys and five bays. The windows are sashes without glazing bars, with the central upper floor window being a three-light design. The ground floor includes a recessed, part-glazed 20th-century door surrounded by glazing. At the rear, there is a possibly earlier kitchen wing and a mid-19th century extension.
Local climate
The Old Rectory receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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 — 1 transaction since 2020
- 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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