The Old Rectory Guest House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 April 1978. Guest house. 3 related planning applications.
The Old Rectory Guest House
- WRENN ID
- quartered-eave-yarrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 April 1978
- Type
- Guest house
- Address
- The Old Rectory Guest House, Sampford Brett, TA4 4LA
- OS grid reference
- ST 088 401
- Coordinates
- 51.15355, -3.30529
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory Guest House is a building that began as a medieval rectory, with significant alterations and additions over the centuries. It was enlarged in the mid-16th century, refaced in the late 18th century, and partially demolished in 1903. The building is constructed of red sandstone, with a hipped slate roof, overhanging eaves, a coved cornice, and a stone stack located between the first and second bays. Originally arranged in an "L" shape, the late medieval core is in the East range. A kitchen was to the South, and a parlour to the North, which was extended westward in the mid-16th century to create a courtyard plan. A West wing and part of the South wing were removed in 1903.
The East-facing front has two storeys and five bays, featuring irregularly placed 12-pane sash windows. A French window is on the right of the ground floor. The center has two long 12-pane sash windows, while the left end has a tripartite 18-pane sash window with an arched doorway, a leaded fanlight, and a half-glazed door with panelled reveals. These two bays are rendered and have an asbestos sheet-roofed trellis verandah extending along the facade. The left return side has three bays, two of which are blocked; the entrance is now located at the rear.
The interior was remodelled in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. A service room in the North wing has an unusual six-panel compartment ceiling with flat beads carved with a vine and pomegranate motif. A fine four-bay arch-braced roof with wind braces is visible above the three central bays on the East front and is said to be smoke blackened, indicating it was formerly an open hall.
Local climate
The Old Rectory Guest House receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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 2004
- 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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