The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Cotswold local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 June 1952. Former rectory, detached house. 2 related planning applications.

The Old Rectory

WRENN ID
swift-forge-rook
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cotswold
Constituency
North Cotswolds MP: Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 June 1952
Type
Former rectory, detached house
Address
The Old Rectory, Church Road, Quenington, GL7 5BN
OS grid reference
SP 149 039
Coordinates
51.734, -1.78538
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old Rectory is a former rectory and detached house with an early 18th-century core. It was extended to the north in the late 18th or early 19th century and again in the late 20th century. The building is constructed of coursed rubble stone with alternating flush quoins and features a stone slate roof with stone stacks, which are external on the northeast end of the original range. The structure has a large L-shape and the original range is two stories high with an attic, facing south towards the mill leat of the River Coln.

The main façade includes five windows: four are two-light wood mullion and transom windows with timber lintels and leaded casements, and one is a 12-pane sash window located on the far right of the first floor. The ground floor has four similar windows and a 20th-century glazed door in the second bay from the left. There are three gabled dormers with paired leaded casements.

To the left, there is a lower service range that features two paired casements on the first floor, one on the ground floor, and one three-light wood mullion and transom window, all with timber lintels. The north side has a hipped projection, likely a former stair turret, which includes a 20th-century doorcase and some two-light stone mullion and transom windows. The entrance side of the late 18th-century two-storey wing has similar windows, while the garden side features large sash windows set in flush stone surrounds. Additionally, there is a small 20th-century cottage of single storey and attic at the northwest corner, which has two small gabled dormers in a swept-down roof.

Local climate

The Old Rectory receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% 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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