The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1952. A Georgian House.

The Old Rectory

WRENN ID
third-brass-willow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Devon
Constituency
Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 June 1952
Type
House
Period
Georgian
Address
The Old Rectory, Lifton
OS grid reference
SX 386 850
Coordinates
50.64276, -4.28291
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old Rectory is a house that was built around 1760 and is now adjacent to the Old Manor. It has undergone some alterations in the 20th century. The exterior is rendered and features a slate roof with gabled ends and a rendered stack at the left gable end, as well as a shared rendered stack at the right gable end with the Old Manor. The house has a single depth plan, is two rooms wide, and includes a central rear stair projection with a hipped roof. There are rear left and right outshuts that may be integral and have catslide roofs.

The front of the house is symmetrical with five bays and has a moulded timber eaves cornice. The central entrance is a 20th-century front door, and there are 18-pane boxed sash windows on the front. Evidence suggests there may have been an 18th-century entrance on the left side leading into the left outshut.

Inside, the layout indicates that the house served as the principal reception rooms, while the Old Manor was likely used for kitchen and service areas. The front entrance leads directly into the left room, and a large archway may suggest a former entrance hall that led to the rear stair hall. There are two 18th-century panelled rooms, although some of the panelling has been replaced in the 20th century. The original cornices and fireplaces remain, featuring consoles that support an entablature decorated with a running frieze and a central scallop shell. The dog-leg staircase has turned balusters and a flat moulded ramped wreathed handrail, and there are six-panel doors, some of which have been introduced from other locations.

Local climate

The Old Rectory sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% 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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