The Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 May 1986. House, rectory. 2 related planning applications.
The Rectory
- WRENN ID
- gilded-minaret-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 May 1986
- Type
- House, rectory
- Address
- The Rectory, Quay Lane, Instow, EX39 4JR
- OS grid reference
- SS 472 303
- Coordinates
- 51.05223, -4.18068
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Rectory is a house, built circa 1830 and extended circa 1850. It is constructed of stucco, with banded rustication to the lower storey and a band at first floor level. The roof is slate, with a gable end to the right and a hipped roof to the front wing on the left. There are axial and gable-end stacks. The original design was symmetrical, with a principal room on either side of a central entrance hall. A partition was later inserted, creating a lobby entrance and staircase between smaller rooms at the rear. Around 1850, a two-room deep wing was added to the left end. The house has two storeys and an attic. It has a five-window front, with the two bays of the left wing breaking forward slightly. The windows are 12-paned hornless sashes on each floor in the wing, and 16-paned hornless sashes in the main range. A semi-circular headed doorway has a six-panelled door and a fanlight, with the pattern of the stucco voussoir joints integrated with the ground storey rustication. The upper storey windows have horizontal sliding louvred timber shutters. The interior was not inspected.
Local climate
The Rectory sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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 — 1 transaction since 2006
- 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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