The Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1956. Rectory. 3 related planning applications.
The Rectory
- WRENN ID
- blind-beam-curlew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1956
- Type
- Rectory
- Address
- The Rectory, Church Lane, Owermoigne, DT2 8HS
- OS grid reference
- SY 770 852
- Coordinates
- 50.66608, -2.32678
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Rectory is a former rectory, now a private house, dating to the late 16th century, with significant rebuilding in the 19th century and a later extension to the west. The building has walls of coursed rubble stone with stone quoins, and the upper storey is timber-framed, jettied, and tile-hung, retaining original joists to the west of the entrance. Stone gable end walls are present, and the rear is rendered with stucco, featuring a small projection which was likely a garderobe.
The roof is slate, with stone gable copings, and there are 19th-century brick stacks at the gable ends. The Rectory is two storeys high, with a gabled porch at the centre. It has five windows, primarily 2-light 19th-century wood casements with lead lights, and a 3-light window above the porch entrance. The right-hand end of the ground floor incorporates a reused 3-light window in Ham stone, featuring a four-centred head and super mullions with trefoiled ogee lights, surmounted by a 2-light sash window. The central porch doorway has an oak frame with straight chamfered jambs and a 3-centred head, dating back to the 16th century, and a 20th-century two-leaf door.
Inside, some rooms feature deeply chamfered intersecting ceiling beams. A staircase, dating to around 1700, has square newels and turned balusters.
Local climate
The Rectory receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% 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 — 9 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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