The Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of Glamorgan local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 26 October 1995. Vernacular house. 1 related planning application.
The Rectory
- WRENN ID
- roaming-porch-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Constituency
- Vale of Glamorgan MP: Kanishka Narayan (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 26 October 1995
- Type
- Vernacular house
- Address
- The Rectory, Llandow, CF71 7NT
- OS grid reference
- SS 952 732
- Coordinates
- 51.44854, -3.50882
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Rectory is a small country house built in the mid-19th century, designed in a simple late Georgian style and situated in open countryside. The building is two storeys high with cement rendered elevations, a rubble plinth, and a pitched slated roof featuring deep boarded eaves. It has an L-shaped plan, with the main range containing three windows aligned on a north-south axis, and a smaller two-window range at right angles to the south end, which steps down to a single storey scullery range to the west.
The main range is topped with four stacks made of coursed rubble, each with moulded caps; there are two gable stacks, two axial stacks, and an additional gable stack at the west end of the rear range. The windows are primarily 12-pane sashes, most without horns, although some later replacements do have horns. The front elevation features a two-storey, central, three-sided bay with a slated hipped roof, which includes 12-pane sashes on both the first and ground floors, flanked by narrow 4-pane sash windows. A strong rendered string course runs around the house at the level of the first floor cills. On either side of the bay, there are single 12-pane sashes without horns on both the ground and first floors.
The south elevation has a single-storey gabled porch at the junction of the main and rear ranges, featuring a five-panelled door on the east side and a round-headed sash with margin panes on the south side of the porch. The south elevation of the main range includes a single deep 12-pane sash with horns, while the south elevation of the rear range has two 12-pane sashes on the first floor and one horned and one hornless sash on the ground floor to the left of the porch. The rear elevation contains additional 12-pane sashes. The front and rear elevations of the scullery are un-fenestrated, except for a single 12-pane sash on the rear gable end. The ground floor sashes in the reception rooms still retain their internal shutters.
The property was not available for inspection at the time of the re-survey in June 1995.
Local climate
The 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- 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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