The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the North Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 January 1991. House. 3 related planning applications.

The Old Rectory

WRENN ID
broken-arch-wind
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Northamptonshire
Constituency
Kettering MP: Rosie Wrighting (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
31 January 1991
Type
House
Address
The Old Rectory, Church Way, Thorpe Malsor, NN14 1JS
OS grid reference
SP 832 790
Coordinates
52.40285, -0.77795
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old Rectory is an early 18th-century rectory, altered in 1812 and now used as a house. It is constructed of coursed and squared ironstone with limestone dressings and has stone slate roofs. The building has a plinth, corner pilasters, a first-floor band, coped gables with kneelers, and three coped stone gable stacks and two ridge stacks. There are also two rendered side wall stacks with brick flues. It is two storeys plus garrets, with five bays and a double-range plan.

The front garden elevation features a projecting gabled central bay with a renewed, pedimented wooden doorcase, a geometrical fanlight, and a two-leaf door. Flanking the door are two 6/6 sash windows, and above them are five similar sashes, all with flat arches. A datestone inscribed ‘G M 1812’ is set into the central gable. The south side has a double gabled arrangement with a recessed centre containing a segmental hooded opening framing a half-glazed door with flanking and overlights. To the left of the door is a blocked window, and to the right, a glazing bar sash. Beyond is an outbuilding with a garage door. Above, on each floor, a central glazing bar sash is flanked to the left by a blocked window and to the right by a similar sash.

The rear elevation features a recessed centre flanked by a blank wing to the west and a wing containing 19th-century sash windows to the west. The east side has a single-storey hipped outbuilding with a six-panel door.

Local climate

The Old Rectory sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2021
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  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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