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.
The Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- grey-plinth-dust
- 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, Litton
- OS grid reference
- ST 593 546
- Coordinates
- 51.28973, -2.58388
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory is a rectory that has been converted into a house. It dates from the 16th century, with additions and alterations made in the early and mid-19th century. The building is constructed from coursed and squared rubble with ashlar and freestone dressings, featuring hipped and gabled slate roofs. The roof has coped verges topped with a cruciform finial, and there are both rubble and ashlar stacks, some set diagonally and grouped, while others are octagonal and grouped.
Architecturally, the Old Rectory showcases Gothick and Free-Gothic styles in an L-plan layout. The symmetrical garden front is two storeys high and consists of three bays. The first floor has 12-pane sash windows with stopped labels, while the ground floor features 8-pane French windows with additional marginal lights, also with stopped labels. A first-floor band and parapet with coping enhance the façade. The central entrance has a 4-centred head door opening with paired three-quarter glazed doors, framed by a projecting surround under a cornice hood.
On the right side, there is a door opening that leads to the churchyard of the Church of St Mary, featuring a panelled door with the top two panels glazed. The left side has a pointed head window on the first floor with two lights and stone plate tracery, along with a three-light stone mullioned window on the ground floor, each light having a 4-centred head.
Inside, the Old Rectory features a moulded 16th-century cross-beamed ceiling, a staircase with stick balusters and a turned newel, and some early to mid-19th-century chimneypieces. The first floor has a barrel ceiling.
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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