Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1962. Rectory. 2 related planning applications.
Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- other-sentry-sunrise
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- East Wiltshire MP: Danny Kruger (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 March 1962
- Type
- Rectory
- Address
- Old Rectory, Beechingstoke, SN9 6HQ
- OS grid reference
- SU 086 592
- Coordinates
- 51.33268, -1.87781
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory is a house that was originally built around 1830 for Reverend Edward Caulfeild, on the site of a rectory from 1743. The building is rendered with painted stone quoins and has a slated roof. It stands two storeys high and features three principal bays, with a wider recessed central bay that contains the entrance, flanked by lateral bays that project slightly forward as wings. To the left is a service wing, which has been extended to include stabling and outbuildings.
The entrance features wide paired half-glazed doors with margin glazed side lights and over lights, all set within a wide Tuscan portico. The first floor has twelve-paned sash windows and flanking six-paned sashes above. The wings have early 20th-century full-height glazing on the ground floor with blind boxes above, and paired six-paned sashes on the upper floor. The eaves are adorned with paired modillion brackets. The roof is hipped and has two brick stacks. The service wing includes a parapet and twelve-pane sashes, along with a glazed lean-to across the ground floor.
Inside, the hall features a staircase with two slender turned balusters for each bracketed tread, and the handrail is scrolled at the end. The dining room in the left wing has a marble chimneypiece, while the drawing room to the right features a fire surround typical of the 18th century.
Local climate
Old Rectory receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% 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 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% 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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- 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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