The Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Merthyr Tydfil local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 13 January 1988. Rectory.

The Rectory

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Merthyr Tydfil
Constituency
Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare MP: Gerald Jones (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
13 January 1988
Type
Rectory
Address
The Rectory, Thomastown, Town
OS grid reference
SO 052 061
Coordinates
51.74617, -3.37424
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Rectory is a two-storey, three-bay building from the Regency period, featuring a stucco front and a narrow recessed central bay. It has a hipped slate roof with wide boxed eaves. The windows are sash types with plain reveals, and the ground-floor windows are tripartite with cornices supported by volute brackets. There is a modern central doorway with a glazed surround. At the back, there is a wing designed in a similar style, which includes original small-pane sash windows.

Local climate

The Rectory sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,210 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% 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 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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