The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 26 April 1967. Rectory. 2 related planning applications.

The Old Rectory

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Powys
Constituency
Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
26 April 1967
Type
Rectory
Address
The Old Rectory, Llanmerewig, Llandyssil, SY15 6NS
OS grid reference
SO 159 928
Coordinates
52.52702, -3.24091
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Old Rectory is an L-shaped house with one storey and attics, featuring a north-south range made of random rubble stone and an earlier east-west range that is timber framed. Both sections are topped with new slate roofs and have two brick chimneys, one located at the center of the timber framed range and the other at the northern end of the stone range. The roofs are adorned with decorative red ridge tiles. The west front, which includes the stone range and the gable end of the cross wing, has been rendered. In the center of the front elevation, there is a 20th-century rendered porch with a pitched roof, and a gabled attic dormer is positioned to the north. The house features small multi-pane wood casement windows, with one window on each storey of the gable end, one in the attic dormer, and another below it.

At the rear (east) of the stone range, there is a 20th-century masonry lean-to porch that includes a door and a small multi-pane window. To the north of this porch is another gabled attic dormer with a multi-pane window below.

The two-unit box framed range consists of three rows of square panels set on a blue brick plinth, with the panels infilled with render. The south elevation is nine panels wide and features a gabled attic dormer in the center, which has a jettied bressumer. The timber framing of the upper panels does not align with the framework below, suggesting that this section and the gabled dormer may have been added later. There are six small multi-pane casement windows, each fitting into a panel in the middle row, as well as two similar windows in the dormer. The east gable end is five panels wide and has passing braces at the lower corners. It features central inserted French windows flanked by small multi-pane windows, and the gable has a collar with diagonal struts above. Below, there are three casement windows similar to those on the south side.

Access to the interior was not available at the time of inspection, but it is reported to be finished with wattle and daub.

Local climate

The Old Rectory receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 2002
  • Related listed building consents — 2 applications
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
  • 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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