The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Cotswold local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 February 1986. Rectory. 3 related planning applications.
The Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- riven-buttress-violet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cotswold
- Constituency
- North Cotswolds MP: Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 February 1986
- Type
- Rectory
- Address
- The Old Rectory, Shipton, GL54 4HU
- OS grid reference
- SP 033 182
- Coordinates
- 51.8629, -1.95282
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory is a former rectory built in 1863 by Thomas Fulljames. It features coursed squared and dressed limestone with a stone slate roof and stone stacks, and has an 'L'-shaped plan. The building is two storeys high with basements.
At the center, there is a two-storey gabled porch that has a four-pane sash window on the first floor and a central 19th-century plank door set within a flat-chamfered segmental-pointed surround. The porch has canted corners that contain tall single-light windows with horizontal glazing bars. There is a band between the ground and first floor of the porch and another band between the basement and first floor.
To the left of the porch, there is a single bay with a 12-pane sash window on the first floor, a 6-pane sash window on the second floor, and a two-light casement window with glazing bars in the basement. To the right of the projecting porch, there are two bays lit by sash windows similar to those on the left, but the basement windows on this side are now blocked.
The gable of the two-storey porch features slightly stepped coping and roll-cross saddles, topped with a foliate ironwork finial at the apex. The gable end stacks are also present. The exterior remains as it was originally built, while the interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
The Old Rectory receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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 — 4 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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