The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Ceredigion local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 4 June 1996. Rectory.
The Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- twisted-joist-burdock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ceredigion
- Constituency
- Ceredigion Preseli MP: Ben Lake (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 4 June 1996
- Type
- Rectory
- Address
- The Old Rectory, Llangynllo, Troedyraur
- OS grid reference
- SN 351 439
- Coordinates
- 52.06919, -4.40708
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Old Rectory is a 19th-century building featuring a whitewashed roughcast exterior and slate roofs, with whitewashed stone end stacks and timber eaves brackets. The structure is two stories high and has a three-window front range. The first floor includes hornless 12-pane sash windows, while the ground floor features two later 19th-century canted bays and a timber porch. The bays are corniced and have 2-4-2-pane sashes. The porch is adorned with chamfered posts, side-lights, and top-lights, and contains an earlier 19th-century six-panel door, with the top two panels being diamond-traceried and glazed. At the rear, there is a gabled stair tower with an arched window.
The northwest wing at the rear consists of two sections, with a taller end range, each being two stories and having two windows. This section has north end stacks and 12-pane sashes, with the left ground floor sash being a 20th-century replacement for a door. There is also a lean-to rear dairy.
Inside, the front range features a central passage with a reeded ceiling border and paired north end arches supported by timber fluted pilasters, one leading to the stairs and the other to a slate-floored space underneath. The stick-baluster staircase has ramped rails and thin column newels, with a short return and landing rails on the upper floor. The doors are six-panel. The rear ground floor rooms have oak joists and large north end fireplaces, and there is a plank door leading into the dairy. A salt cupboard is located next to the inner room fireplace.
Local climate
The Old Rectory sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,150 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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