The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 March 1961. House. 3 related planning applications.
The Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- endless-string-pigeon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 March 1961
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Rectory, Alford, BA7 7PN
- OS grid reference
- ST 605 322
- Coordinates
- 51.08838, -2.56485
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory is a detached house, originally the rectory for Alford, likely dating from the 17th century. It is constructed of local lias stone with squared blocks, featuring dressings of Ham stone. The roof is tiled with Roman pantiles and features coped gables, with an ashlar chimney stack on the west gable topped with a moulded cap. The house is two storeys high with an attic, and has four bays. It has ovolo-mould mullioned windows; the ground floor windows have hood moulds, and are mostly two-light, although the window in the first bay is three-light. The lower bay four has a casement window. Dormer windows with tiled roofs are present in bays one and three. A boarded door is set in a plain opening with a voussoired segmental arched head, situated between bays two and three. An Early 20th century oriel window is on the east gable at first floor level. The interior was not inspected during the listing process.
Local climate
The Old Rectory receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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 2015
- 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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