The Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the South Gloucestershire local planning authority area, England. Rectory, house. 6 related planning applications.

The Rectory

WRENN ID
empty-rotunda-cobweb
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Gloucestershire
Constituency
Thornbury and Yate MP: Claire Young (LD)
Country
England
Type
Rectory, house
Address
The Rectory, Toghill Lane, Doynton, BS30 5SY
OS grid reference
ST 721 739
Coordinates
51.46366, -2.40296
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Rectory, now a house, dates from the early 18th century and has undergone alterations in the late 18th century, 19th century, and 20th century. It is constructed of coursed rubble with stone dressings, featuring prominent long and short quoins, and has a slate roof with raised coped verges and gable stacks. The building is designed in a classical style and consists of two storeys with four windows, all of which are sashes with horns set in raised architraves that have projecting keystones. The central entrance is an eight-panelled door in a similar surround, flanked by recessed panels and topped with a pediment on moulded brackets. There is a plinth, a moulded string course above the heads of the ground floor windows, a cornice, and a blocking course.

To the right, there is a single-storey addition with a cornice. The right side of the building features varied windows; the ground floor has two four-pane sashes with raised architraves and dripstones, while the first floor has two sashes to the right with thicker glazing bars, a smaller sash with margin glazing to the left, and two four-pane sashes at the attic level. The coping ramps up to the central stack. On the left side, both the ground and first floors have two sashes with thick glazing bars, raised architraves, projecting keystones, and floating cornices, along with two similar attic windows. The rear of the building includes a central plate glass sash in a recessed reveal that lights the stair, a blocked window at the first floor right, a 20th-century dormer, and a single-storey addition with three sashes in raised architraves with keystones, along with two 20th-century doors.

Inside, the property features shutters on the windows, an open-well stair with a wreathed handrail and turned balusters, and the front left room, which was formerly two rooms but is now one, has panelled walls and a fireplace at the rear in a moulded surround, along with cornices.

Local climate

The Rectory receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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 2019
  • Related listed building consents — 6 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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