The Old Rectory, with Its Front Boundary Wall, 8 Metres South of House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 April 1961. Rectory. 2 related planning applications.
The Old Rectory, with Its Front Boundary Wall, 8 Metres South of House
- WRENN ID
- tall-pewter-elder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 April 1961
- Type
- Rectory
- Address
- The Old Rectory, with Its Front Boundary Wall, 8 Metres South of House, BA22 9EQ
- OS grid reference
- ST 494 131
- Coordinates
- 50.91595, -2.71976
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory is a former rectory, now a private house, likely dating from the 18th century. It is constructed of ham stone ashlar, with a rendered extension to the west, and has a Welsh slate roof with coped gables. Yellow brick chimney stacks are also present. The building is two storeys high and originally comprised three bays. It features hollow chamfered mullioned windows with horizontal bar casements, with three lights in the upper middle bay and four lights in the outer bays. There is a central half-glazed door set in a plain surround. A single-bay extension is present, with three-light casement windows, and a hooded porch to the east gable.
A front boundary wall, built of large cut and squared local stones with a shaped coping, runs approximately 8 metres south of the house. The western portion of the wall incorporates smaller stones. The wall is about 1 metre high, with a higher return on the southeast side and extends for approximately 28 metres. It is capped by openwork cast iron panel railings of Gothic design, featuring interwoven pointed ogee arches, standing approximately 400 mm high. The wall greatly enhances the setting of the house.
Local climate
The Old Rectory, with Its Front Boundary Wall, 8 Metres South of House receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% 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 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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 — 3 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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