The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 March 1990. House. 2 related planning applications.
The Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- secret-casement-bittern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Barrow and Furness MP: Michelle Scrogham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 March 1990
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Rectory, Aldingham, LA12 9RT
- OS grid reference
- SD 283 710
- Coordinates
- 54.13034, -3.09729
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory is a house dating from the late 18th century or early 19th century. It is constructed of roughcast stone with ashlar dressings and has slate roofs. The building consists of two parallel ranges. The north elevation features two storeys and three bays, with a later single-storey extension to the south that is of no special interest. It has a top cornice and quoins. The windows are sashed with glazing bars, although the windows in the first bay are later casements that resemble sashes. There are two windows in the third bay on the ground floor and a round-headed window in the second bay on the first floor. The central entrance includes a traceried fanlight and a six-panel door, with a gabled porch supported by four Doric columns and a central round arch.
The south elevation has three storeys and five bays, featuring sashed windows with glazing bars. The first bay has tripartite sashes, while the fifth bay includes Venetian windows on two floors. The second bay has a round-headed entrance with a traceried fanlight. Gable-end stacks are present. The east elevation displays tripartite sashes in the second bay, with the first-floor window having an elliptical head, supported by an angel corbel that features a finial.
Local climate
The Old Rectory sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,650 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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 — 2 transactions since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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