The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of Glamorgan local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 10 September 1982. Rectory.
The Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- weathered-forge-thunder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Constituency
- Vale of Glamorgan MP: Kanishka Narayan (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 10 September 1982
- Type
- Rectory
- Address
- The Old Rectory, St Donats, Cowbridge / Y Bont-Faen, St. Donats
- OS grid reference
- SS 933 681
- Coordinates
- 51.4026, -3.53482
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Old Rectory is a building with local lias limestone rubble walls. The internal floors and roof are missing, and the structure is heavily overgrown with ivy. In the northern part of the building, the north-west gable and the north-east wall have collapsed. The full height south-east gable of the south-east room features a 2-light stone mullioned window on the ground floor to the east and a single light window on the first floor to the west, with an external stack positioned between them. There is a pointed arch doorway in the north-west wall, while the north-east wall has window openings that lack their fittings. The south-east gable end is topped with stone coping.
Inside, the north-west ground floor wall of the main part retains a stone fireplace with a finely moulded head and jambs, along with a relieving arch above. There is also a stone arched doorway on the first floor that connects the north-west and south-east rooms, and a surviving fireplace on the first floor.
Local climate
The Old Rectory sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,170 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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