The Old Rectory is a Grade II* listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 July 1955. A 18th century Residential. 2 related planning applications.
The Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- western-hammer-woodpecker
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 July 1955
- Type
- Residential
- Address
- The Old Rectory, Milton Abbas, Blandford Forum, DT11 0BW
- OS grid reference
- ST 803 017
- Coordinates
- 50.81458, -2.28049
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory is a Grade II* listed house, formerly known as The Old Manor House and The Vicarage, built around 1780, likely designed by Sir William Chambers. The building features plastered walls and a hipped stone slate roof with brick stacks at the center. It has a double-pile plan and a lead flat at the center of the roof. The house is two storeys high with an attic. The entrance has a central flush panel door flanked by sidelights with glazing bars, and above it is a lunette window with glazing bars, all slightly recessed. On either side of this central feature, there are two sash windows with glazing bars on both the ground and first floors. The attic includes three hipped dormers with casements that have a central glazing bar. At the right end of the building, there is a lean-to outbuilding made of flint with a slate roof, and behind it is a single-storey range of outbuildings featuring one ledged door and a pair of garage doors.
Inside, the decor is rather plain, with a cut string staircase that has blocked spandrels, plain balusters, and a wreathed handrail. There are also some raised panel doors.
Local climate
The Old Rectory receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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 2004
- 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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