The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1988. House. 1 related planning application.
The Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-hall-heath
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- South Northamptonshire MP: Sarah Bool (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 March 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Rectory, High Street, Blisworth, NN7 3BJ
- OS grid reference
- SP 724 533
- Coordinates
- 52.17402, -0.94137
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory is a house that was formerly a rectory, dated 1841. It is built from limestone ashlar with slate roofs and features stone end and ridge stacks. The building has a double-depth plan and consists of two storeys and an attic, with a three-window range.
The central gabled porch has a double-chamfered stone doorway with a four-centred head and double-leaf doors, which include cut spandrels and a hood mould. There are octagonal pinnacles at the corners, and double-chamfered one-light windows on the sides, along with a stone-coped parapet and gable that includes a datestone. The porch is flanked by narrow sash windows with double-chamfered stone surrounds.
The bays on either side of the porch project forward and feature chamfered stone mullion and transom windows on the ground floor, and two-light chamfered stone mullion windows on the first floor, all of which have pairs of small sashes and hood moulds. There is also a small sash window with a chamfered stone surround in the attic gable. The building has a plinth, a first-floor string course, and bracketed stone eaves.
To the right, there is a single-storey wing with three windows. Inside, the property has an open well staircase with simple turned balusters, carved tread ends, and a ramped and wreathed mahogany handrail.
Local climate
The Old Rectory sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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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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