The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 February 1987. House. 2 related planning applications.
The Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- buried-barrel-fen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Bridgwater MP: Sir Ashley Fox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 February 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Rectory, Middle Road, Cossington, TA7 8LQ
- OS grid reference
- ST 357 402
- Coordinates
- 51.15808, -2.91998
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory is a house, originally a rectory, dating to the 16th and 17th centuries, with substantial alterations made in the early 19th century. The exterior is roughcast, with a triple-Roman tile roof and brick stacks. The building is in a Gothick style and comprises two storeys and an attic, with three bays. It has two-light casement windows with ornamental glazing bars. A single-storey canted bay window is located to the right of the ground floor. The attic has a gabled dormer and a half dormer, with tiled copings to the verges. The central doorway is flanked by a pair of half-glazed Gothick doors, which are sheltered by an ornamental porch with a single-pitched roof. Internally, the right side of the ground floor has a moulded cornice. There are some panelled doors and a surviving large wooden bressumer, a remnant of a former fireplace, is visible within a hall cupboard.
Local climate
The Old Rectory receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% 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 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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 — 2 transactions since 2005
- 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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