The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1985. House, rectory. 3 related planning applications.
The Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- sombre-balcony-holly
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- South Northamptonshire MP: Sarah Bool (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 July 1985
- Type
- House, rectory
- Address
- The Old Rectory, Queens Street, Culworth, OX17 2AT
- OS grid reference
- SP 544 469
- Coordinates
- 52.11825, -1.20556
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory is a house that was originally built as a rectory in 1854, with extensions added in 1869. It was designed by E. F. Law for the Reverend Charles Hill, and features a datestone from 1854 with the initials C.S.H on the left side. The building is constructed of ironstone ashlar with limestone dressings and has a roof covered by snow at the time of the survey, along with brick stacks.
This Gothic Revival style house is in an L-plan layout, consisting of two storeys and an attic with five bays. The main block, which is to the left and has three bays, includes a central castellated tower with a doorway beneath a pointed stone arch and a double half-glazed door. To the right, there is a gabled bay featuring a canted bay window with stone mullions on the ground floor, along with a three-light stone mullioned and transomed window to the left. The first floor has a two-light stone mullioned window in the left bay, a window with two trefoil-headed lights above the entrance, and a window with three trefoiled lights to the right. The attic features two trefoil-headed lancet windows in both the right gable and the tower.
The lower wing, which is set back to the right, has two irregular gabled bays and includes three-light stone mullioned windows on the ground floor, with the left window having a transom. The left bay on the first floor has a trefoil-shaped window, while the right bay contains two pointed lights with a transom.
Inside, the rectory features a stone staircase with an iron balustrade, marble fireplaces, ornamental plaster cornices, and a stained glass screen at the entrance to the hall, which includes roundels painted with views of the church and rectory. It is said that the building was financed by the Reverend Charles Hill's father-in-law, who was a businessman from Birmingham.
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 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 74% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
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- 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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