Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 April 1967. Rectory.

Rectory

WRENN ID
hollow-copper-rowan
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Lake District National Park
Constituency
Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 April 1967
Type
Rectory
Address
Rectory, Caldbeck, Cumberland
OS grid reference
NY 324 398
Coordinates
54.74926, -3.05019
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Rectory in Caldbeck is a building that was rebuilt on the site of an earlier rectory for Pynson Wilmot, who served as rector from 1765 to 1789, with an early 19th-century extension. It features incised cement render with V-jointed quoins and a graduated hipped greenslate roof with rendered chimney stacks. The building is two storeys tall and has five bays, with an additional five bays to the left rear and a single-storey, single-bay extension, creating an overall L-shape.

At the center, there is a two-storey bow-fronted bay with a tetrastyle Doric porch that includes a six-panel door and sidelights beneath a glazed fanlight. Above this, there is a tripartite bow sash window. The building has sash windows with glazing bars, although three on the upper floor are internally blocked, all set within painted stone architraves. The upper-floor right-side tripartite windows are located under a central ogee arch with tracery glazing bars. The left side features 19th-century double-sash windows. The single-storey extension has a reused 18th-century fluted-pilaster doorcase beneath a dentilled cornice.

Local climate

Rectory sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,310 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 59 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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