The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 16 March 1992. Rectory.
The Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- carved-basalt-summer
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 16 March 1992
- Type
- Rectory
- Address
- The Old Rectory, Whitton
- OS grid reference
- SO 271 672
- Coordinates
- 52.29892, -3.06975
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Old Rectory is a two-storey building with an attic and two rear wings, constructed from coursed stone rubble and topped with a slate roof featuring crested ridge tiles. It has two end stacks with rendered brick upper sections and a chevron oversailing course. The symmetrical garden front displays a tile-hung upper storey that rises to a central dormer in a cross gable, complete with projecting bargeboards, a finial, and a pendant. On either side of the central front door, which is supported by tapering wooden posts with scroll brackets, are two-storey early 20th-century bay windows with pantile roofs. The rear wings consist of one in stone rubble and the other tile-hung, both featuring projecting bargeboards, a pendant, and a finial.
To the north, there is a late 19th-century rubble extension that includes a louvred opening in the gable upper section and a shuttered opening in the roadside wall. Another rubble extension with a hipped roof and modern casements is located to the south, alongside a small rubble block with a pitched roof that also has a shuttered opening facing the roadside. Additionally, there is a detached stable or traphouse with a loft above, which is connected to a pigsty and a fuel store. This structure is built from coursed rubble and has a slate roof with crested ridge tiles, and it backs onto the road. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
The Old Rectory receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% 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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