The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 August 1966. A C18 House.
The Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- steep-merlon-blackthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Richmond and Northallerton MP: Rishi Sunak (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 August 1966
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Rectory, Main Street, Scruton
- OS grid reference
- SE 300 924
- Coordinates
- 54.32716, -1.53882
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory is a house dating from the mid-18th century, with later alterations. It has a rendered exterior and a pantile roof. The building is two storeys high with attics and features five bays, along with a wing at the rear. The central entrance has a half-glazed door set within a Doric surround, which includes a frieze and a segmental pediment. All the windows are sash style, complete with glazing bars and stone sills. The eaves are dentilled, and there are three dormers added in the 20th century. The roof is finished with stone coping and has end stacks, as well as two stacks along the ridge.
Local climate
The Old Rectory receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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