The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 March 1961. House.
The Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- deep-latch-sunrise
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 March 1961
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Rectory, Sherborne Road, South Cadbury and Sutton Montis
- OS grid reference
- ST 632 255
- Coordinates
- 51.02773, -2.52565
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory is a detached house that was formerly a rectory, built in the 18th century. It is constructed from local lias stone that is cut and squared, with some rubble work, and features Doulting stone dressings. The roof is made of Welsh slate, with a stepped coped north gable and a hipped south-west corner. There are brick and stone chimney stacks.
The building has a closed U-plan and consists of two storeys with a four-bay roadside elevation. The sash windows are set in a keystoned moulded architrave, with 12-pane windows below and 9-pane windows above. There are no windows in the second and third lower bays, but between these bays, there is a pair of three-panel doors beneath a rectangular three-pane fanlight, all within a plain raised ashlar surround.
The south elevation has five bays that match the roadside elevation. The fifth bay projects and features an angled two-storey bay window with full windows on each of its three faces. The upper windows are all 9-pane, while the lower bays one to three have 12-pane windows. Bay four includes a French door with a fanlight above, and the lower windows in this bay have 18 panes. A single-storey wing has been added to the north side. The interior has not been seen.
Local climate
The Old Rectory receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% 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 54% 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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