The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Cotswold local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 August 1960. A C17 House. 17 related planning applications.
The Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- hidden-hall-wax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cotswold
- Constituency
- North Cotswolds MP: Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 August 1960
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Rectory, Oddington, GL56 0UP
- OS grid reference
- SP 232 258
- Coordinates
- 51.93106, -1.6627
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory is a former manor house that later became a rectory and is now a detached house. It dates from the 17th century and was enlarged in the late 17th century, with alterations and extensions made in the early and late 19th century. The building is constructed from coursed, squared, and dressed limestone, with a later 17th-century wing that is now roughcast, and features a stone slate roof along with ashlar and brick stacks.
The structure is 'L' shaped, with an early 17th-century block and a later 17th-century extension that has projecting stacks. This extension features large two-storey canted bays that were inserted around 1820 on the garden front. There is also a two-storey brick extension from the 19th century located in the angle between the two 17th-century blocks, as well as a late 19th-century cottage-type extension at the rear.
The entrance front showcases the early 17th-century main body, which has two storeys and an attic lit by two roof dormers. The windows include a two-windowed facade with three-light double-chamfered stone-mullioned casements that have ovolo-moulded mullions and stopped hoods. The entrance features a part-glazed 19th-century door beneath a portico with a triangular pediment supported by Doric columns, and there is foliate decoration on the corner stones flanking the pediment. To the left, the 19th-century extension stands at right angles, also with two storeys and an attic, featuring two 2-light roof dormers with flat, leaded roofs and 12-pane sash windows below, all within surrounds that have slightly cambered heads. The later 17th-century extension has a hipped roof, while the red brick 19th-century extension has a mansard roof. The building has axial stacks with moulded cappings, with the rest being brick. The interior is reputed to contain a 17th-century staircase.
Local climate
The Old Rectory receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 17 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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