The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 December 1951. Rectory. 2 related planning applications.
The Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- twisted-hearth-foxglove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- South Cotswolds MP: Dr Roz Savage (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 December 1951
- Type
- Rectory
- Address
- The Old Rectory, Top Street, Great Somerford, SN15 5JA
- OS grid reference
- ST 965 830
- Coordinates
- 51.54671, -2.05179
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory is a former rectory dating back to the 16th or early 17th century, with significant additions and alterations made in the mid to later 18th century and again in the later 19th century. It is constructed of rubble stone with a stone slate roof. The original section of the building is at the east end, featuring a hipped roof to the south and a north-east angle, with one ridge stack and one rear stack. The south elevation has a hipped dormer and a single window with flush ashlar surrounds; the upper part is blank, and the lower part has a former sash window. The east side has been extended with a large three-window canted bay with similar windows, though the ground floor features a door and a blank window above the centre window. To the right is a single window with a ground floor window and a blank space above. All the windows originally had 18th-century sashes, now replaced with 20th-century aluminium glazing. The north side has a hipped dormer and a two-storey canted bay dating from the late 16th or early 17th century, featuring 1:3:1-light mullion windows with coved top mouldings. The north front has been extended by a single-window range to the west, with an end stack and paired sash windows in the 18th century. A large L-shaped addition from the later 19th century projects to the west, including large mullion-and-transom windows, a north side-wall stack, a coped west gable, a Gothic-style door on the south side, and a projecting half-hipped wing to the right.
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 — 6 transactions since 1996
- 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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