The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Cotswold local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 March 1985. Rectory, house. 1 related planning application.
The Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- dusted-tallow-clover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cotswold
- Constituency
- South Cotswolds MP: Dr Roz Savage (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 March 1985
- Type
- Rectory, house
- Address
- The Old Rectory, High Street, Avening, GL8 8NF
- OS grid reference
- ST 879 981
- Coordinates
- 51.68191, -2.17515
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory is a former rectory that has been converted into a private house, dating from the early 18th century. It features a rendered exterior and a Cotswold stone slate roof with paired hipped gables that create a double range, along with two stone ridge stacks. The building is two storeys tall and has scattered dormer windows.
The entrance front faces west and includes a single central 12-pane sash window above an altered entrance porch, with a 4-pane 19th-century sash window to the left on the ground floor. Original openings on either side of the first floor and to the right on the ground floor have been blocked. The garden front, which faces north, has two large 12-pane sash windows on each floor and a six-panel door. Inside, much of the original 18th-century joinery remains.
Local climate
The Old Rectory receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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 — 3 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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