The Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 9 May 1988. House.
The Rectory
- WRENN ID
- distant-marble-linden
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 9 May 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Rectory, Newtown and Llanllwchaiarn
- OS grid reference
- SO 113 914
- Coordinates
- 52.51337, -3.3084
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Rectory and former servants wing, located on Kerry Road in Newtown, is an early 19th-century, two-storey house with a cellar and three windows. It is constructed of painted English garden wall bond brick and features a U-plan with hipped slate roofs and lead ridges, along with deep boarded eaves and brick stacks.
The front elevation includes shallow upper sashes with nine panes in the first-floor windows and twelve panes in the ground-floor windows. The windows have gauged brick voussoirs, plain reveals, and stone sills. A broad cambered arch leads to the central recessed entrance, which is supported by Tuscan columns and features imposts that frame an inset round arch. The entrance has a mid-19th-century part-glazed double door. To the extreme left, a depressed archway provides access to a courtyard. The right end elevation has four windows, with two on the ground floor replaced by a later 19th-century corniced canted bay featuring French windows. The remaining fenestration matches that of the front. The left end elevation, facing the courtyard, has a 19th-century lean-to addition, a round-arched side-barred stair window, and a small-paned iron casement on the first floor, while modern windows are present on the ground floor. A broad doorway with a four-light fan leads to an earlier section on the left. The rear elevation is slate-hung, with windows on the right side, including a small-paned iron casement and a Victorian sash on the first floor, and a twelve-pane sash and a small-paned iron casement on the ground floor.
At the rear of the yard, there is a two-storey kitchen and servants wing, built similarly to the stables, featuring tall central brick stacks. The wing has small-paned iron casement windows facing the courtyard, with two lights on the left and three lights on the right, all under cambered header arches with shallow reveals and no sills. A nine-pane sash window is located on the left end wall of the first floor, with an offset narrowed door on the ground floor and a cut window alongside. A blocked window is present on the right end wall above the first-floor band, and there is a tier of nine-pane sash windows on the rear elevation, with a similar smaller sash on the right and a modern doorway to the left.
The property includes a cobbled yard bounded by a stone-capped brick wall on the open south side. Inside, there are good plaster cornices, torus-moulded doorcases, panelled doors, and panelled shutters on the windows. Additionally, there is a lamp room with a sink and a contemporary stair.
Local climate
The Rectory sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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