The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 October 1971. House.
The Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- lone-gable-moth
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gwynedd
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 19 October 1971
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Rectory, Rhiw, Pwllheli, Aberdaron
- OS grid reference
- SH 233 286
- Coordinates
- 52.82647, -4.62268
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Old Rectory is a former rectory constructed from rubble stone and topped with slate roofs. The earlier 19th-century front range features large squared blocks, a close-eaved roof, and stone stacks at each end. It has a two-storey, two-window facade with large 12-pane sash windows, the ground floor windows being larger and having slab lintels. The right end wall includes a six-panel door with fielded panels to the right, a basement window to the left, and a 12-pane stair light on the first floor to the right.
The long rear wing consists of two phases, with visible straight joints and rougher masonry. There is a stone ridge stack at the back of the front range and a stone end stack. The northeast side has a blank section of wall behind the front range, followed by a straight joint, then a door with stone voussoirs and a 9-pane casement window above it. Another joint leads to the ground floor right, suggesting that this end section was raised in the later 18th century, followed by two renewed 9-pane windows and one similar window on the first floor to the right.
On the southwest side, there is a loft window in the 19th-century front range and a straight joint. To the left, there is a long 12-pane sash window above a 16-pane sash window, which is presumably the later 18th-century addition. This is followed by a straight joint to the ground floor, where there is a 9-pane window in a former door, with a fixed 9-pane window above. Another straight joint runs down the right jamb of the next windows, featuring a 12-pane sash above and a 4-pane window below.
Local climate
The Old Rectory sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,600 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 1 freeze-thaw cycle a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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