The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 June 1984. Rectory. 4 related planning applications.
The Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- empty-wattle-yew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Wetherby and Easingwold MP: Sir Alec Shelbrooke (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 June 1984
- Type
- Rectory
- Address
- The Old Rectory, Brafferton and Helperby, YO61 2NZ
- OS grid reference
- SE 436 702
- Coordinates
- 54.12611, -1.3335
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory is a former rectory, now a house, dating to the late 18th century. It is constructed of pale brown local brick with stepped and dentilled eaves. The roof is tiled, with stone coping and kneelers, and features end and ridge stacks. The building is two storeys high and has four bays. A Victorian single-storey bow was added to the left side, featuring windows with margin lights and a flat plan, likely inserted later. An early 20th-century wooden porch provides access, concealing the original doorcase. The door is a 6-panel design with a patterned radial fanlight, set within a wooden doorcase featuring reeded pilasters supporting an open dentilled pediment with paterae in the friezes. Late 19th-century sash windows are set in flush wood architraves with channelled stucco lintels. Inside, original 18th-century architraves surround doors, and arches with keyblocks are found in the hallway. The staircase has reeded newels, turned balusters, and a ramped handrail with a curtail.
Local climate
The Old Rectory receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2011
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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