The Old Rectory and Rectory Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 April 1961. A C18 House, rectory. 1 related planning application.
The Old Rectory and Rectory Cottage
- WRENN ID
- muffled-marble-quill
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 April 1961
- Type
- House, rectory
- Address
- The Old Rectory and Rectory Cottage, Rectory Lane, Norton Sub Hamdon, TA14 6SP
- OS grid reference
- ST 472 158
- Coordinates
- 50.9401, -2.75227
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory and Rectory Cottage is a detached house that was formerly a rectory, built in the 18th century with 19th-century additions. It is constructed from Ham stone ashlar and features hipped plain clay tiled roofs with stone slate base courses, with part of the building having a Mansard roof. The structure has stone slab and brick chimney stacks and is designed in an 'L' shape, consisting of two storeys with attics.
The west elevation has a layout of 1+3+2 bays and includes a plinth, an upper cill band, an eaves course, and rusticated quoins. The sash windows are set within architraves that have keystones; the three-bay section has 6-pane windows above and 12-pane windows in the lower bays one and two. The north bay features a 12-pane window at mezzanine level, which is concealed by a swept coping to the parapet that hides a lean-to.
The south-west projecting wing has two bays with 9-pane sashes above and 6-pane sashes in hipped-roofed attic dormers. Below this, there is a 19th-century four-light mullioned and transomed square bay window with a flat roof behind a parapet. An angled flat-roofed porch connects across the angle formed by the south-west projection, featuring a six-panel door with a plain architrave, semi-circular arched sidelights, and a cornice with a low plain parapet masking the flat roof. There are blind windows on the return of the south-west wing and a further single-storey extension to the north with a three-light chamfer-mullioned window. The east side has several extensions from various late 20th-century dates.
Inside, the building features a mid-18th-century staircase, several 18th-century doors and doorcases, one 18th-century panelled room, as well as a number of Regency and later features.
Local climate
The Old Rectory and Rectory Cottage receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- 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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