The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 May 1952. House.

The Old Rectory

WRENN ID
salt-tin-hyssop
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Yorkshire
Constituency
Thirsk and Malton MP: Kevin Hollinrake (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
1 May 1952
Type
House
Address
The Old Rectory, Main Street, Sessay
OS grid reference
SE 461 751
Coordinates
54.1698, -1.2945
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old Rectory is a house that was originally built as a rectory in the 18th century, with later additions and alterations. It was reroofed after a fire in the 1920s. The building is rendered and has a Welsh slate roof. It is two storeys tall, previously three, and features a symmetrical seven-bay front with a single-storey wing on the left. The structure has a plinth and the central bay is recessed, containing an entrance with a six-panel double door, where the top four panels are glazed, set in a bolection-moulded architrave beneath a bracketed hood. The windows are narrow sashes with glazing bars and projecting sills. The roof is hipped, with broad stacks at either end of the ridge and an additional cross-ridge stack at the left end.

The lower wing on the left has 20th-century French windows to the right of a sash window with glazing bars, and the roof is hipped on the left with a taller single-storey wing behind. At the rear, there is a round-arched stair window with glazing bars and a radial head, along with some sashes that have glazing bars. The right return features three bays, with French windows on the ground floor and sashes with glazing bars above; to the right, there is a raised verge with a gable stack. The left return of the wing has narrower 18-pane sashes with glazing bars.

Inside, there are panelled doors, and the rear right room includes a stone fireplace with an eared architrave, frieze, and cornice under a mirror flanked by early 19th-century fitted cabinets. The staircase is a dog-leg, open-string design with stick balusters and a spiral curtail to the handrail. Although the third storey was destroyed by fire in the 1920s, the ridge of the roof and the chimneys appear to retain their original height.

Local climate

The Old Rectory receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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