The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1988. House. 5 related planning applications.
The Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- buried-forge-wax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 June 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Rectory, Church Lane, Wingfield, BA14 9LW
- OS grid reference
- ST 825 567
- Coordinates
- 51.30959, -2.25202
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory is a late 18th-century rectory, now a detached house. It is constructed of dressed limestone and ashlar, with stone slate mansard roofs featuring coped verges and gable end stone and brick stacks. The two-storey and attic main front, facing the church, has a three-window facade. A central 20th-century glazed door with a transom light is flanked by 12-pane tripartite sash windows within beaded architraves. The first floor has a central plain sash with tripartite sashes either side, with a blocking course extending to the roof. The lower pitch of the mansard roof features three 12-pane sashes.
The right return, now the front entrance, has a door with six fielded panels, originally from the main front, and a 19th-century two-storey ashlar addition with sash windows. The rear, facing the road, has a two-span mansard roof with 12-pane sashes in beaded architraves, and a lean-to addition to the right featuring six-pane 19th-century sash windows. The left return has a 20th-century 12-pane sash window on the ground floor, and an attached wing with sash windows in beaded architraves, including two sashes to the lower pitch of the mansard. A 20th-century conservatory has replaced a late 19th-century wing.
The interior features six-panelled doors within moulded architraves, square-headed stone fireplace surrounds, a staircase with stick balusters and a ramped handrail, and Tuscan newels. A rear dining room, formerly the kitchen, has a chamfered beam with run-out stops. The building ceased to be occupied as a rectory in 1969.
Local climate
The Old Rectory receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 53% 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 — 3 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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