The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 October 1987. House. 2 related planning applications.
The Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- frozen-casement-primrose
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 October 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Rectory, Main Street, Chilthorne Domer, BA22 8RD
- OS grid reference
- ST 524 193
- Coordinates
- 50.97135, -2.6789
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory is a detached house dating from around 1800, although it may have been remodeled from an older structure. It features a ham stone ashlar facade, with a brick east gable constructed in Flemish bond on random coursed rubble. The roof is made of Welsh slate and is set behind a low parapet, flanked by stepped coped gables, and there are rendered brick chimney stacks. The building has an L-plan layout and is two storeys high with a four-bay south facade that faces the road.
The exterior includes a rendered plinth, a cornice, and a low parapet with a moulded canopy. The sash windows are set within architraves, with 16 panes in the lower windows and 12 panes in the upper ones. In the third bay from the left, there is a part-glazed door within a semi-circular arched opening, which also has an architrave and a radially glazed fanlight. To the left of the first bay, there is a crosswing with a timber clad lean-to, which is likely older than the main house but has been significantly altered. There are traces of another building that once stood against the north-east corner, but this has now been demolished. The interior has not been seen.
Local climate
The Old Rectory receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1998
- 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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