The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 November 1987. Rectory. 4 related planning applications.
The Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- tattered-corbel-cobweb
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Chippenham MP: Sarah Gibson (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 November 1987
- Type
- Rectory
- Address
- The Old Rectory, Compton Bassett, SN11 8RE
- OS grid reference
- SU 031 717
- Coordinates
- 51.4444, -1.95637
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory is a former rectory built around 1840, featuring rendered walls with ashlar dressings and imitation stone slate roofs. It has various diagonally shafted stacks and is designed in a Tudor style, comprising two storeys and an attic with an irregular plan. The building showcases coped gables and parapets.
On the south front, there is an advanced two-window section to the left, which includes ground floor two-light and three-light mullion-and-transom windows with hoodmoulds. The first floor has a two-light window to the left and a three-light window with a hoodmould to the right, along with a sill course. The left side has a parapet, while the right side features a gable with an attic single light. The west end gable boasts a large first floor oriel window, paired with the gable-end of the rear range.
The right side of the south front has a four-window range of two-light windows, with mullion-and-transom windows below. The left two bays are set within a Tudor-arched two-bay loggia, with a door located in the left bay. The upper windows have a sill course, and above the third window, there is a low gable above the parapet that features a shield with a carved crozier. The east end stack has a Gothic panelled corbelled base. The irregular north front includes a projecting gable to the left, a large projecting centre gable, and a range to the right that runs parallel to the front range.
Local climate
The 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 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings