The Old Rectory and Gates Immediately to South West is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 February 1988. House.

The Old Rectory and Gates Immediately to South West

WRENN ID
carved-shingle-sage
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Devon
Constituency
Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 February 1988
Type
House
Address
The Old Rectory and Gates Immediately to South West, Northlew
OS grid reference
SX 504 991
Coordinates
50.77244, -4.12171
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old Rectory, located in Northlew, is a house that was formerly used as a rectory, dating from around the mid-19th century. The building features rendered walls and a gable-ended slate roof, which has moulded coping stones and shaped kneelers at the gables, along with small brackets at the eaves. There are two truncated rendered gable end stacks that slightly project, with weathered set-offs, and one axial stack at the rear wing.

The layout includes two principal rooms facing the garden front, with the entrance located behind and stairs in a small wing parallel to the front. There is also a service wing at the rear of the right-hand end. The design is in the Tudor Gothic style and the house is two storeys high.

The symmetrical garden front has three windows on the first floor, all in chamfered openings. The windows consist of two-light sashes on the right and left, with a narrow single-light sash in the centre, all set in ovolo-moulded frames. On the ground floor, there are two windows in slightly projecting bays with chamfered corners and moulded cornices; these feature three-light ovolo-moulded wooden mullions with high transoms. A weathered string course at the first floor level breaks forward around the bays and continues around the other elevations.

The entrance is located in the right-hand side wall and features a moulded four-centred stone doorway with glazed double doors, and above the doorway is a two-light 19th-century sash under a gable. The rear service wing to the right has two windows.

Inside, the property retains much of its 19th-century joinery, including a staircase with chamfered stick balusters and square newels topped with ball finials. The property also includes elaborate tall wrought iron gates leading to the courtyard on the south-west side of the house.

Local climate

The Old Rectory and Gates Immediately to South West sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,020 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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