Rectory Farmhouse and the Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Monmouthshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 15 March 2000. Farmhouse, rectory.

Rectory Farmhouse and the Old Rectory

WRENN ID
plain-loft-mint
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Monmouthshire
Constituency
Monmouthshire MP: Catherine Fookes (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
15 March 2000
Type
Farmhouse, rectory
Address
Rectory Farmhouse and the Old Rectory, Bryngwyn, Raglan, Llanarth
OS grid reference
SO 390 093
Coordinates
51.7796, -2.88541
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Rectory Farmhouse and the Old Rectory are two houses that were originally joined but are now back-to-back. Rectory Farmhouse features whitewashed rubble stone and a slate roof, with a rendered ridge stack located left of center and a very small stack at the right end. The building has one storey and an attic, with four timber dormers along the eaves, flat-headed on each side and two gabled dormers towards the center right. The ground floor includes a half-glazed door and a triple casement window with a timber lintel, situated between single-storey outbuilding ranges. The southeast range, which was formerly a bakery, has a painted stone ridge stack at its former eastern end, along with a door and window in the original part and an additional door at the left end. The northeast range has a monopitch roof against the garden wall, with a broader opening against the house that is now a window and door, plus two additional windows. The rear of the farmhouse is obscured by The Old Rectory. The south end wall is rendered and features 19th-century openings, including a 12-pane sash window in the loft and a pair of casement windows on either side of a tall glazed opening below, which has 20th-century glazing.

The Old Rectory is taller than Rectory Farmhouse and is finished with whitewashed roughcast in a minimally Tudor style, featuring a coped shouldered gable on the south side. It has two hoodmoulded windows on the first floor, one of which is blank and the other a 12-pane sash window, with a 20th-century porch below. The west garden front has been altered.

Inside Rectory Farmhouse, there are two rooms to the north of the chimney and one room to the south, which were probably added later. The main fireplace has been infilled, and there are stop-chamfered beams with stepped hollow stops above the fireplace, two in the room, and one over the partition. There are remains of a stone winding stair to the right of the fireplace. The south end section features a 19th-century fireplace. The single-storey range at the southeast, said to have been a bakery, has a two-bay roof with a collar-truss. The main three-bay roof has massive purlins, and there is a plank partition between the rooms. The two-bay roof above the sitting room is higher and has large purlins.

The Old Rectory is not available for internal inspection.

Local climate

Rectory Farmhouse and the Old Rectory receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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