Old Rectory with high wall to roadside is a Grade II listed building in the Denbighshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 21 March 2001. Parsonage.
Old Rectory with high wall to roadside
- WRENN ID
- stubborn-sentry-root
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Denbighshire
- Constituency
- Clwyd East MP: Becky Gittins (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 21 March 2001
- Type
- Parsonage
- Address
- Old Rectory with high wall to roadside, Llanelidan, Ruthin
- OS grid reference
- SJ 107 505
- Coordinates
- 53.04472, -3.33305
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Old Rectory is a two-storey parsonage built in the late 18th century or early 19th century, constructed from local dressed limestone with a slate roof that is half-hipped at both ends. The building features two mid-chimneys, with the one on the right positioned slightly off-ridge. The ridge and hips are covered in red tile. The upper storey at the front has original nine-pane sash windows, while the lower front windows have been replaced with enlarged late 19th-century canted bay windows featuring small-paned sashes, which replaced earlier smaller bays. There is a small external porch at the front, and the house is set on a terrace that is five steps above the front lawn.
At the rear, the windows have been altered to casement type within the original openings, except for the lower left window, which is in an altered opening. There is also one rooflight window at the rear.
A high limestone wall screens the house from the adjacent road, topped with large water-eroded blocks. Inside, there is a contemporary staircase with a scrolled end to the handrail over a curtail step, and the balustrade features iron balusters at intervals.
Local climate
Old Rectory with high wall to roadside sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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