The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the North Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1961. A C17 Rectory. 2 related planning applications.
The Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-doorway-hazel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Somerset
- Constituency
- North Somerset MP: Sadik Al-Hassan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 February 1961
- Type
- Rectory
- Address
- The Old Rectory, Broad Street, Wrington, BS40 5LD
- OS grid reference
- ST 469 627
- Coordinates
- 51.36146, -2.76384
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory is a former rectory that has been converted into a detached house. It has a core that dates back to the 17th century, with an addition made around 1710. In the 1950s, the building was reduced in height by one storey. The structure is built of random rubble with dressed stone openings and flush rusticated stone quoins. The roof of the 1710 block is covered with pantiles, while the 17th-century range features triple Roman tiles.
The building has an L-shaped plan, with the 17th-century core on the right and the 1710 block on the left. The north front is two storeys high and has five windows. All windows are 12-pane sashes, with those on the ground floor set under segmental-headed flush relieving arches. The central doorway features a moulded and eared architrave, a bolection frieze, and a broken segmental pediment supported by carved consoles, leading to a six-panel door. There is a moulded plinth course, a first-floor string course, and bracketed eaves beneath the hipped roof. The building has two stone stacks, with an additional stone stack on the 17th-century range.
Inside, there is an early 18th-century staircase with barley sugar balusters and three fine 18th-century chimney pieces located in the Dining Room, Drawing Room, and Library. A Tudor-arched doorway connects the 1710 block and the 17th-century wing, which also features a 17th-century ovolo-moulded opening that was originally an east end window.
Local climate
The Old Rectory receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% 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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- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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- 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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