The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 February 1958. Rectory, hotel.
The Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- stark-hinge-wind
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 February 1958
- Type
- Rectory, hotel
- Address
- The Old Rectory, Donyatt
- OS grid reference
- ST 337 140
- Coordinates
- 50.92242, -2.94394
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory is a former rectory that has been converted into a private hotel, likely built in the 18th century. It is constructed from roughly cut and squared local stone and features a thatched roof with coped gables. The east gable includes a gablet and a ball finial, along with brick chimney stacks. The building has a 'T'-shaped plan and stands two storeys high with a six-bay south elevation that faces the road. The windows are small-pane casements with three lights, each adorned with stone voussoired flat arches. The fifth bay has a plain, slightly projecting gable with a chimney at the top. In the fourth bay, there is a part-glazed door set within a 20th-century lean-to porch that has a pantiled roof. A 20th-century window has been inserted at ground floor level on the east gable. The interior has not been seen.
Local climate
The Old Rectory receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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