The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the New Forest National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 February 1987. Rectory. 2 related planning applications.
The Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- scattered-niche-acorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- New Forest National Park
- Constituency
- New Forest West MP: Sir Desmond Swayne (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 February 1987
- Type
- Rectory
- Address
- The Old Rectory, Queen Street, Hale, SP6 2RD
- OS grid reference
- SU 185 184
- Coordinates
- 50.96555, -1.73678
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory is an early 18th-century rectory, later converted into a private house, with alterations from the 19th century. It is constructed of brick, including blue headers, with a plain tile and slate roof. The house is two storeys and has an attic, with a three-by-two bay main block set at an angle to the road, and a lower, four-bay wing extending along the road. The front facade features a slightly projecting gable on the right-hand side, which has a 19th-century gabled porch with a carried-round offset plinth, corner pilasters, and a gable wall. A double door is located on the left-hand side of the porch. A twelve-pane sash window is present under a rubbed arch to the left of the porch, and two similar windows are on the first floor. Above the windows is a first-floor band, surmounted by a half-hipped gable with a two-light casement window. The lower wing has a plank door in the right-hand bay and one or two-light casement windows in the other bays, with first floor end bays also featuring casements. Blind openings are present in the centre bays of the wing. The roof is hipped and features a stack above the door.
Local climate
The Old Rectory receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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