The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 June 1961. Rectory, house. 4 related planning applications.
The Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-groin-jet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 June 1961
- Type
- Rectory, house
- Address
- The Old Rectory, High Street, Lydford-On-Fosse, TA11 7DQ
- OS grid reference
- ST 566 319
- Coordinates
- 51.08512, -2.61982
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory is a late 18th-century rectory, now a house. It is located on the east side of High Street in West Lydford. The building is constructed of coursed and squared lias stone, with a plain stone band at first-floor level. It has a hipped slate roof with 20th-century concrete stacks set on a ridge, ashlar end pilasters, and a moulded stone eaves cornice. The plan is a 'T' shape, with a symmetrical front entrance.
The two-storey, three-bay front has Venetian windows in plain stone surrounds, with the exception of a single semi-circular headed window in the centre of the first floor. Windows are 6:15:6 pane sashes, with the centre first-floor window having 15 panes. A central door opening features a dressed stone surround with a moulded semi-circular head and pilasters on either side. The door is half-glazed, with a fanlight containing radiating glazing bars. A large stone portico, with a flat entablature supported on four fluted Roman Doric columns (three-quarter columns against the walls), provides access. A two-storey wing of lower height is set at right angles to the rear, built in a similar style.
The interior retains contemporary features, including fireplaces and ornamental plasterwork to the principal ground floor rooms.
Local climate
The Old Rectory receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2004
- 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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