The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 1987. Rectory, house. 5 related planning applications.
The Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- hollow-spandrel-quill
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 January 1987
- Type
- Rectory, house
- Address
- The Old Rectory, Chewton Hill, Chewton Mendip, BA3 4NQ
- OS grid reference
- ST 598 532
- Coordinates
- 51.27681, -2.57703
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory is a rectory, now a house, built around 1830 with some mid-19th century additions and alterations. It features banded ashlar stone with prominent quoins, a moulded stone cornice, and a parapet with coping. The slate roof has coped verges and end ashlar stacks, along with three late 20th century box dormers. The building has a symmetrical front with two storeys and an attic, consisting of three bays where the center bay projects slightly. It has large four-pane sash windows and a band on the first floor. The central entrance has a semi-circular head door opening framed in painted freestone, with a recessed six-panelled door and a fanlight with radiating glazing bars. There are sash windows with glazing bars on the left return. At the rear, there is a gabled Gothic addition and a single-storey service range. The interior includes original doors, fireplaces, a staircase, and ornamental plasterwork.
Local climate
The Old Rectory receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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 — 5 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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