The Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 October 1985. Rectory. 4 related planning applications.
The Rectory
- WRENN ID
- secret-oriel-woodpecker
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 October 1985
- Type
- Rectory
- Address
- The Rectory, Shepton Street, Croscombe, BA5 3QN
- OS grid reference
- ST 591 442
- Coordinates
- 51.19638, -2.58635
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Rectory is an early 19th-century rectory built in a severe neo-classical style. It is constructed of stucco, which is colourwashed, and features ashlar corner pilasters. A plain stone band runs along the first floor level, and the building has a hipped slate roof with brick stacks. The symmetrical facades include a garden frontage that is two storeys high and has three bays, with 9 and 12-pane sash windows. The central window on the ground floor is blank. The entrance frontage matches the style of the rest of the building and features a central door opening with a six-panelled door. This is topped by a stone portico that has a fluted entablature, a moulded cornice, and a blocking course supported by twin Tuscan columns and pilasters on the wall. Above the entrance, there is a small square light with marginal glazing bars.
Local climate
The Rectory receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% 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 — 4 transactions since 2007
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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