The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Cotswold local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1952. A C18 House. 7 related planning applications.
The Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- salt-spindle-ivory
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cotswold
- Constituency
- North Cotswolds MP: Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 January 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Rectory, Farmington, GL54 3ND
- OS grid reference
- SP 134 153
- Coordinates
- 51.8362, -1.80555
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory is a former rectory, now a house, reputedly built in 1788. It is constructed from coursed squared and dressed limestone with a stone slate roof to the main body and stableblock, and has ashlar stacks. The building has a rectangular plan for the main body, with a flat-roofed extension to the left that links it to a former stableblock, now converted into garaging.
The main body of the house is two storeys and an attic, with 20th-century flat-roofed dormers and 2-light casements in the gable ends. The garden front is symmetrical with a five-window facade, featuring 12-pane sashes with plain architraves and keystones. The central entrance has a fielded 6-panel door within a restored round-headed surround with a fanlight containing radiating glazing bars, supported by Doric columns and topped with a gabled stone canopy. A Sun Fire Insurance plaque is located above the door, and traces remain of a former porch roofline. A band and parapet sits above the first-floor windows. A 19th-century, part-glazed door is located in the right gable end, set back within a panelled reveal with a brick-built head and ornate fanlight. Rear elevations have 12-pane sashes within plain architraves. The main body has a half-hipped roof with axial stacks, while the stableblock has a similar half-hipped roof.
Inside, the original staircase features a wreathed handrail and stick balusters.
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 lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2011
- Related listed building consents — 7 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings
Nearby listed buildings
- Dovecote C40m North of Stables, Farmington Lodge
- Stableblock, Including South Stable Cottage and North Stable Cottage and Wall, Farmington Lodge
- Shelter to Former Village Pump
- Adam Family Monument, in the Churchyard of the Church of St Peter, C6m West of Tower
- Manor Farmhouse
- Church of St Peter
- Barn C15m West of Manor Farm
- Farmington Lodge
- The Old Forge
- Festival of Britain Bus Shelter