The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 May 1957. Rectory, house. 3 related planning applications.
The Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- stark-corner-rush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 May 1957
- Type
- Rectory, house
- Address
- The Old Rectory, Orton, CA5 6NB
- OS grid reference
- NY 328 543
- Coordinates
- 54.87913, -3.04822
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory is a building that has been converted from a rectory to a house. It dates from the mid-18th century, with a late 18th-century extension. The structure features English garden wall bond brickwork set on a chamfered stone plinth, with V-jointed painted quoins. The roof is made of graduated greenslate and has a coped gable with a kneeler on the right side, along with brick chimney stacks. The building is two storeys high and consists of three bays, with a two-bay extension to the left under a common roof. The entrance includes a six-panel door within a painted stone surround. The windows are two-pane sash types, also in painted stone surrounds, with a small fire window located on the upper floor at the extreme right. The extension features two-pane sash windows that sit under flat brick arches and have painted stone sills.
Local climate
The Old Rectory sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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 — 3 transactions since 2007
- 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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