Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 July 1985. House. 4 related planning applications.

Old Rectory

WRENN ID
inner-bonework-yarrow
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, the Street, Chilmark, SP3 5AT
OS grid reference
ST 970 326
Coordinates
51.09286, -2.04379
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old Rectory is a detached house that dates from the 17th century, with early 19th-century alterations. It is constructed from limestone ashlar and features a tiled roof with brick or ashlar stacks. The building is laid out in an L-plan and has two storeys with a seven-window front.

The entrance is marked by a double-chamfered round-arched doorway located in the right of the two cross wings. The central part of the house has two recessed bays, each with 4-pane sash windows on both the ground and first floors. The left cross wing includes a two-storey canted bay with 4-pane sashes and a 3-light ovolo-mullioned window in the attic. Above the doorway, there is a stone oriel with a 3-light recessed chamfered mullioned window, and to the right, a 3-light mullioned window. The attic features a 3-light ovolo-mullioned window with a hoodmould, and the coped verges are topped with ball finials.

To the right of the main structure is a single-storey extension that has a 4-light leaded casement window. The right return of the building includes a reset 14th-century window in the single-storey extension on the left, a one-bay section with a 16-pane sash window, and a five-bay early 19th-century wing built in Flemish bond brick, which has 2-light leaded casements in the basement and 12-pane sashes on the principal floor. The rear of the house features 12-pane sashes in the early 19th-century wing with a hipped slate roof, several ovolo and chamfered mullioned windows on both floors of the west wing, and an early 19th-century stair extension with a round-arched sash. The east wing has a margin-pane sash window. The left return displays ovolo-mullioned windows on the ground, first, and attic floors. The interior was not accessible at the time of the survey in March 1985.

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 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 2004
  • 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
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