The Rectory and Attached Garden Wall and Entrance Piers is a Grade II listed building in the South Gloucestershire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 December 1984. Rectory.

The Rectory and Attached Garden Wall and Entrance Piers

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Gloucestershire
Constituency
Thornbury and Yate MP: Claire Young (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
5 December 1984
Type
Rectory
Address
The Rectory and Attached Garden Wall and Entrance Piers, Berwick Lane, Almondsbury
OS grid reference
ST 568 819
Coordinates
51.53463, -2.62373
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Rectory, now a house, dates from the 17th century, with its front remodeled around 1750 and extended in the 19th and 20th centuries. It features random rubble construction, rendered at the front, with ashlar coped verges and kneelers on a pantiled roof. The building is two storeys high and has three windows, all of which are sashes in exposed boxes. There is a central panelled and glass door beneath a flat timber hood, and a coved timber cornice. To the left, there is a 20th-century single-storey extension with a pitched roof. The house has cellars beneath part of it, and the roof is raised in the centre to accommodate small upper sashes with four panes. The rear of the main block has three first-floor windows, all with timber lintels; the central window is a sash, while the outer ones are casements. To the left, there is a single three-light window, and to the right, a pair of two-light windows with a central mullion, along with timber gutters.

Inside, there is a central open-string, open-well staircase leading to the first floor, featuring plain gadrooned and knopped balusters, with a handrail that sweeps in a curve at the bottom. The balustrade continues around the open well and the first-floor landing. Some windows still have their shutters. The kitchen includes a stone fireplace with a Tudor arch and chamfered edges, while the first-floor front right has a stone fireplace with a basket arch and a 19th-century hobgrate. The property also has attached random rubble garden walls topped with red brick coping, and entrance piers with ball finials, but no gates.

Local climate

The Rectory and Attached Garden Wall and Entrance Piers 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 62% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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