The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 October 1954. A Medieval Rectory.
The Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- winter-hinge-frost
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Downs National Park
- Constituency
- East Worthing and Shoreham MP: Tom Rutland (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 October 1954
- Type
- Rectory
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- The Old Rectory, Coombes Road, Adur
- OS grid reference
- TQ 191 081
- Coordinates
- 50.86024, -0.30837
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory is a 15th-century timber-framed and close-studded building, originally serving as a clergy house before the Reformation. It features plaster infilling, with the ground floor of the east front rebuilt in flints. There is a small central projection with a gable above, and a bay on the ground floor that projects further out. The original Horsham slab roof has largely been replaced with tiles. The building has two storeys and contains four casement windows.
Local climate
The Old Rectory receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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