The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 February 1985. House. 2 related planning applications.
The Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- winter-soffit-dock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Chippenham MP: Sarah Gibson (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 February 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Rectory, Hardenhuish Lane, Chippenham, SN14 6HN
- OS grid reference
- ST 909 747
- Coordinates
- 51.47172, -2.13215
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory is a former rectory dating from around 1830. It is constructed of ashlar stone with low-pitched slate roofs and an ashlar ridge stack. The main front has two storeys and a two-window facade featuring twelve-pane sash windows. Architectural details include raised ashlar angle strips, a plinth, and an eaves band. The east end has two windows, with a blank window to the first floor on the left and a doorway with a hood supported by consoles on the ground floor to the right. A one-window north end addition is present, and the south front is set back from the main facade, featuring matching angle piers, a plinth, and an eaves band. A rear wing, initially a single window in width, has been extended to two windows.
The Reverend R. Kilvert became Rector of Hardenhuish in 1835, and the diarist Francis Kilvert was born at the rectory in 1840. The family moved from the property in 1855.
Local climate
The Old Rectory receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 13 transactions since 1997
- 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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