The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 October 1952. Priests house. 3 related planning applications.
The Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- tenth-jamb-dock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Downs National Park
- Constituency
- Lewes MP: James MacCleary (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 October 1952
- Type
- Priests house
- Address
- The Old Rectory, The Old Parsonage, the Lane, Westdean, Cuckmere Valley, Wealden, BN25 4AL
- OS grid reference
- TV 524 996
- Coordinates
- 50.77677, 0.16121
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory is a late 13th-century priest's house that has been restored and enlarged. It has two storeys and features four windows. The exterior is faced with flints, complemented by stone dressings and quoins, and it has a tiled roof. There is a small square projection on the south front, and on the first floor of the east front, there is one window with two trefoil-headed lights. The other windows are modern. The north wall includes a chimney breast and another rectangular projection that contains the staircase.
Local climate
The Old Rectory receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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 — 1 transaction since 2010
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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