Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 May 1985. House. 4 related planning applications.
Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- cold-floor-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- South Northamptonshire MP: Sarah Bool (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 May 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Old Rectory, Wardington Road, Chacombe, OX17 2JU
- OS grid reference
- SP 490 439
- Coordinates
- 52.09175, -1.28621
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory is a house dating from the 18th century, which incorporates earlier work and was remodeled around 1840. It is built from coursed limestone and ironstone rubble, topped with a slate roof and features brick stacks. The building has an L-shaped plan, is two storeys high with an attic, and consists of three bays.
At the center, there is a gabled stone porch from the 19th century that includes a four-centred arch and a fanlight with "Gothick" glazing bars. The inner doorway also has a fanlight and 19th-century glazed double doors. On either side of the porch, there are sash windows with plain stone frames. A plain string course runs along the first floor level, where the sash windows are adorned with 19th-century square stone hoods. The building has a moulded wood cornice and overhanging eaves with scalloped wooden bargeboards.
At the rear, there is a lower wing that projects from the left, likely dating from the 17th century but altered in the 19th century. This wing is two storeys tall and features four large stone buttresses. The ground floor has a five-light window with moulded wood mullions, while the first floor has 19th-century windows with square stone hoods and small gables. Inside, the rear wing has been remodeled in the 19th and 20th centuries, but the ceilings still retain chamfered joists.
Local climate
Old Rectory sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 72% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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