The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 March 1985. House.
The Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- little-garret-gorse
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Downs National Park
- Constituency
- Arundel and South Downs MP: Andrew Griffith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 March 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Rectory, the Street, Graffham, Chichester
- OS grid reference
- SU 928 167
- Coordinates
- 50.94264, -0.67992
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory is a house built in 1805 by the Reverend John Sargent, who served as Rector from 1805 to 1833. This L-shaped building is faced with roughcast and features a slate roof, with stone slates on the north side. The windows have intact glazing bars, and there is a segmental bay that rises two storeys on the north side. The house has two storeys and four windows. Notably, the Reverend Henry Edward Manning, who later became Archdeacon and then Cardinal, lived here from 1831 to 1833 while he was a curate in Graffham, alongside Reverend John Sargent, whose daughter Caroline he married.
Local climate
The Old Rectory receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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