The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1955. House. 6 related planning applications.
The Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-steel-summer
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- Christchurch MP: Sir Christopher Chope (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 March 1955
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Rectory, Church Lane, West Parley, BH22 8TR
- OS grid reference
- SZ 085 969
- Coordinates
- 50.77181, -1.87956
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory is an early 19th-century house located on Church Lane in West Parley. It is constructed of stucco with a plinth and stone cills. The house has a low-pitched slate roof with widely-spaced brackets supporting a broad eaves soffit.
The east front is symmetrical, featuring a two-storey, three-window arrangement with sash windows set in reveals. A simple porch sits centrally; it has a blocking course, cornice, frieze supported by coupled brackets, a fanlight above the entrance, and double doors. The south (garden) elevation is also symmetrical, with four windows of similar design to the east front, but with French casements on the ground floor. A service building in an L-shape is located on the north side of the house. To the west of the south front is a plain structure, likely a former chapel, with a porch.
Local climate
The Old Rectory receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% 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 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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 — 6 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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