The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 July 1986. Rectory, private house.
The Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- ancient-footing-sedge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- South West Wiltshire MP: Dr Andrew Murrison (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 July 1986
- Type
- Rectory, private house
- Address
- The Old Rectory, Norton Bavant
- OS grid reference
- ST 905 434
- Coordinates
- 51.19029, -2.13694
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory is a private detached house that was originally built as a rectory in the late 17th century, with an 18th-century addition and a wing constructed in 1802 by T. Prangley of Heytesbury. The building features rubble stone construction and Welsh slate roofs, with a hipped roof on the 19th-century range and brick stacks. It consists of two parallel ranges with rear wings.
The front of the house is two stories high and has four windows, all of which are sash windows. The central porch, which is from the 19th century, is located on the gable end of the 17th-century range and includes a margin-pane glazed door and window. To the right on the ground floor, there are two 16-pane sashes, while to the left on the 19th-century range, there is a large 15-pane sash. On the first floor of the 19th-century range, there is a 12-pane sash, along with two 16-pane sashes and one 12-pane sash to the right. The 17th-century range has a steeply pitched roof with coped verges.
The left side of the building features three large 15-pane sashes on the ground floor and three 12-pane sashes on the first floor of the 1802 range, all set in plain ashlar cases and topped with a shallow pitched hipped roof. The right side has 12-pane sashes in the 18th-century ranges. The interior was not accessible during the survey conducted in July 1985.
Local climate
The Old Rectory receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% 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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