The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1985. House. 4 related planning applications.
The Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- errant-chamber-mist
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Exmouth and Exeter East MP: David Reed (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 May 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Rectory, Poltimore, EX4 0AR
- OS grid reference
- SX 967 969
- Coordinates
- 50.76302, -3.46561
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory is a house that was formerly the Rectory, built in the early 19th century. It is constructed of brick, rendered, and has a slate hipped roof with a tumerised design and brick stacks. The main range of the building has outbuildings on the left side, and both sections are two stories high.
The front of the house is symmetrical with three bays; the middle bay is narrower and recessed, all beneath overhanging eaves supported by shaped brackets. The corners feature panelled pilaster quoins. The central door is panelled and framed by a panelled architrave, topped with a lattice barred rectangular fanlight. The upper windows are hornless sashes, with eight panes in the outer windows and six panes in the central window. The ground-floor windows have eight panes above and twelve panes below. There are also three six-pane hornless sash windows in a separately roofed block to the left. All the sashes are original.
A high rendered wall extends from the corner of the main block, concealing the appurtenances from the garden. The Old Rectory shares a similar design with Bampfylde House.
Local climate
The Old Rectory receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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 — 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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