Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 July 1985. House. 2 related planning applications.
Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- narrow-bastion-hawthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Salisbury MP: John Glen (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 July 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Old Rectory, Shaftesbury Road, Berwick St. John, SP7 0EY
- OS grid reference
- ST 946 223
- Coordinates
- 51.00057, -2.07791
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory is a detached house built in the early 19th century. It features limestone ashlar with rubble stone on the returns, a tiled hipped roof, and brick stacks. The building has a two-span roof and stands three stories tall with a three-window front. The central entrance consists of a six-panelled door set on stone steps, topped with an Adam-style fanlight and a segmental hood, with panelled reveals. On either side of the door are 12-pane sash windows. There is a plat band at the first floor level, where there are two 12-pane sashes and one blocked window to the left. The second floor has three 6-pane sashes. The right return of the building is windowless and features a lead rainwater head dated 1811. The left return has two 12-pane sashes on the first floor and two 6-pane sashes on the second floor, while the ground floor includes an extension from 1880 with sash windows and 20th-century casements. The rear of the house has a mix of fenestration, mainly consisting of leaded casements with some sashes. Attached to the right is a two-storey range that includes a six-panelled door and two-light leaded casements, topped with a half-hipped fishscale tiled roof. Inside, the property features six-panelled doors with moulded architraves and reeded fireplace surrounds with paterae.
Local climate
Old Rectory receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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 — 2 transactions since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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