The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Flintshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 August 2002. A Georgian Rectory.

The Old Rectory

WRENN ID
shifting-dormer-onyx
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Flintshire
Constituency
Clwyd East MP: Becky Gittins (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
30 August 2002
Type
Rectory
Address
The Old Rectory, Nannerch
OS grid reference
SJ 166 696
Coordinates
53.21693, -3.24982
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Old Rectory is a late Georgian house dating back to the early 19th century, with an addition made in 1813. It is two storeys high and has five bays. The house is constructed of rubble stone with a renewed slate roof that projects from the eaves on timber boarding. Brick stacks are located at the left end, to the right of the centre (corresponding to the original house's gable end), and at the right gable end, with two external stacks. The east-facing front is symmetrical, with the central three bays and the left three bays representing the original house, separated by a straight joint from the two bays added in 1813. A hipped porch with splayed angles and narrow openings provides a central entrance, with a replaced front door and a small-pane overlight. Windows are 16-pane hornless sashes, with original wooden lintels that have been renewed in concrete on the lower floor. The right gable end and the four-window rear elevation are rendered, except for the two bays to the right of the rear elevation, the lower storey of which forms Rectory Cottage. Segmental-headed windows with visible stone voussoirs incorporate wooden-framed casements with leaded lights, though the lower right side has replacement glazing and the lower left side has a 12-pane sash window to the original study. The upper floor has three windows to the centre and right, and a single window on the left. On the lower floor, a boarded door is located to the left of centre, under a segmental head, with the study window further left. A boarded door under a gabled canopy to the right of centre provides the entrance to Rectory Cottage, which has a small inserted window to its left.

Rectory Cottage is an adjoining, two-storey, two-window house. Its original east-facing front is set back from the front of The Old Rectory. The lower storey features brick segmental heads above a doorway to the right with a replaced glazed door, and a replaced casement on the left. The upper storey has similar replaced casements in earlier openings beneath the eaves. The west side has a rendered gabled projection with replaced and inserted windows, and a conservatory that abuts the coach house.

The house's interior layout dates back to 1813. The wide entrance hall, which includes a fireplace, was originally the right-hand room of the original house. Panelled doors, reveals, and shutters have been retained. The entrance hall leads to a rear stair hall, which has a dog-leg staircase with plain balusters and turned newels. The right-hand room at the rear on the lower storey contains a parish 'register chest' dated 1813 with a steel door. A brick tunnel-vaulted cellar has a cobbled floor.

Local climate

The Old Rectory receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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