The Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1989. Rectory. 2 related planning applications.
The Rectory
- WRENN ID
- heavy-newel-rye
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1989
- Type
- Rectory
- Address
- The Rectory, Sutcombe, EX22 7PU
- OS grid reference
- SS 340 123
- Coordinates
- 50.88635, -4.36106
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Rectory is a mid-19th century building. It is likely constructed of rendered stone walls with a hipped slate roof, featuring overhanging eaves and rendered brick stacks at both ends. The building has a double-depth plan, arranged with two rooms wide and a central stairhall. The front of the house, overlooking the garden, contains the principal rooms, while service rooms are located on the opposite side.
The garden front is symmetrical, displaying three original twelve-pane sash windows on the first floor and matching contemporary two-light casement windows below. A likely original verandah, supported by wooden columns, runs along the front of the house. The rear entrance side has three original sixteen-pane windows on the first floor, with a fixed stairlight in the centre. Below are a twelve-pane sash to the left and a thirty-pane sash to the right, alongside a 19th-century four-panel door at the centre, which is topped by a rectangular fanlight. The interior has not been inspected, but the largely unaltered appearance of the exterior suggests it retains a fairly complete suite of joinery.
Local climate
The Rectory sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% 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 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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 — 2 transactions since 2001
- 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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