The Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the North Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 March 1984. Rectory. 1 related planning application.
The Rectory
- WRENN ID
- last-belfry-foxglove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Somerset
- Constituency
- North Somerset MP: Sadik Al-Hassan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 March 1984
- Type
- Rectory
- Address
- The Rectory, Wraxall Hill, Wraxall and Failand, BS48 1NA
- OS grid reference
- ST 491 719
- Coordinates
- 51.44463, -2.73301
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Rectory is a building dating from the early to mid-17th century, which was remodelled in 1801. It features a rendered exterior and a pantile roof with coped raised verges, a coped parapet, and a moulded eaves cornice, along with rendered stacks. The structure has three storeys and three bays, with 2- and 3-light casement windows that have Gothick glazing and are set under segmental heads. The left window on the ground floor is a 3-light casement with pointed heads, hollow moulded freestone mullions, and surrounds, topped with a dripmould.
There is a projecting square porch with panelled and glazed lights. To the left, there is a single-storey, three-bay billiard room that extends back, featuring a hipped slate roof, a parapet, and a moulded cornice, along with three glazing bar sash windows that have external blind boxes. A screen wall with a lean-to greenhouse is located on the right side. The west gable end includes a 4-light freestone cross window with pointed heads and hollow moulded mullions and surrounds. The central first-floor window at the rear is a 4-light wooden casement with ovolo moulded mullions.
Inside, the property has chamfered beams with scroll stops and an open well stair with turned balusters.
Local climate
The 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 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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