The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 August 1986. Rectory. 2 related planning applications.
The Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- shadowed-baluster-curlew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 August 1986
- Type
- Rectory
- Address
- The Old Rectory, Skilgate, TA4 2DQ
- OS grid reference
- SS 987 272
- Coordinates
- 51.03587, -3.44516
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory is an early 19th-century rectory, now used as a dwelling. It is constructed with roughcast over rubble, featuring a pyramid slate roof with overhanging eaves and soffit boards. A central brick stack rises from the roof, while the service wing has a hipped slate roof. The building follows a double-pile plan facing east, with a service wing at the rear.
The east front has two storeys and three bays. First-floor windows are 16-pane sashes. The ground floor features lead-roofed bay windows with 16-pane sashes. A central 6-panel door is set beneath a rectangular light, and is sheltered by a flat-roofed wooden porch with a lead roof and half-glazed double doors. The left return has two 16-pane sashes on the first floor and a 16-pane sash window on the ground floor to the left. Contemporary French windows are located on the right side of the ground floor, with the service wing set back to the rear.
Local climate
The Old Rectory receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% 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 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2007
- 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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