Former schoolroom wing to the Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 14 May 1970. House. 1 related planning application.
Former schoolroom wing to the Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- scarred-nave-alder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Pembrokeshire Coast National Park
- Constituency
- Mid and South Pembrokeshire MP: Henry Tufnell (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 14 May 1970
- Type
- House
- Address
- Former schoolroom wing to the Old Rectory, Bosherston, Stackpole and Castlemartin
- OS grid reference
- SR 964 948
- Coordinates
- 51.61555, -4.94102
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
This is a late 18th century house, likely built after 1782, situated on the south side of the road leading into Bosherston village from the Pembroke direction. The property served as a parsonage until recently.
The main house is two storeys high with a cellar, presenting a three-window front facing north. It is constructed of rendered rubble masonry, accentuated by brick dentils at the eaves and irregularly placed block brackets supporting rainwater gutters. The windows are six-pane sash windows, with the outer windows being tripartite, featuring two mullions and narrow two-pane side sashes. The roof is hipped and covered in slate, with end chimneys. A front garden wall made of rubble masonry runs along the front, with a mounting block near the left entrance gate. A symmetrical stone staircase, approximately 1.2 meters in rise, provides access to the front door landing, with wrought-iron railings. The arched doorway is deep-set, featuring a fanlight, moulded archivolt, and thin sunk-panel pilasters.
A schoolroom wing was added in 1838, set back from the main frontage on the west side. A larger servants’ wing, constructed in limestone masonry, was built later to the east, before 1864. This wing is a two-window range with six-pane sash windows in brick-dressed openings, slightly set back from the main block. A rear service wing adjoins the kitchen and incorporates a dairy.
The interior follows a double-pile and double-fronted plan, featuring a full-depth hallway and a dogleg staircase. The original staircase has well-proportioned flights with a simple square-section balustrade. A landing window is positioned at the rear, slightly off-centre. Ceilings are notably high, and the front contains a dining and drawing room. The floor plan was altered in 1838 to provide access to the new schoolroom. The front bedrooms on both the left and right sides retain their original fireplaces; the left fireplace is complete and has unusual dust-flues from the smoke-shelf. Windows throughout are fitted with inside folding shutters.
The building is listed as a fine late-Georgian parsonage.
Local climate
Former schoolroom wing to the Old Rectory sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,160 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 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 3 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2010
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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