The Old Rectory, with the Roadside Boundary Wall and Gate Piers is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 August 1984. House.

The Old Rectory, with the Roadside Boundary Wall and Gate Piers

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
16 August 1984
Type
House
Address
The Old Rectory, with the Roadside Boundary Wall and Gate Piers, Chilton Cantelo
OS grid reference
ST 570 221
Coordinates
50.99702, -2.61326
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old Rectory is a house that was originally built as a rectory in the 17th century and has undergone modifications since then. It is constructed from local stone that is roughly squared and coursed, featuring timber lintels and a thatched roof, along with stone and rendered brick chimney stacks. The building has a "T"-shaped plan, with the "stalk" being an early 20th-century addition. The south elevation is two stories high and consists of four bays. The entrance is located in the third bay and features a four-panel door with two glazed panels, sheltered by a timber lattice porch topped with a lead bell-hipped roof. The windows are timber casements, some of which are leaded. In the second bay, there is a two-story, five-sided bay window of early 20th-century design, with lead-clad panels and a flat roof. To the north, there is an extension made of stone with a plain clay tile roof, as well as a one-story roofed lean-to. The roadside boundary wall stands about 2.5 meters high and is made of local stone with flat stone copings. The gate piers are made of Ham stone, square in plan, featuring plinths and moulded stone caps.

Local climate

The Old Rectory, with the Roadside Boundary Wall and Gate Piers receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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