The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Monmouthshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 October 2000. Rectory.

The Old Rectory

WRENN ID
lesser-foundation-peregrine
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Monmouthshire
Constituency
Monmouthshire MP: Catherine Fookes (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
19 October 2000
Type
Rectory
Address
The Old Rectory, Llanvetherine, Abergavenny, Skenfrith
OS grid reference
SO 366 171
Coordinates
51.8493, -2.92163
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Old Rectory is a two-storey building with an attic, constructed from rubble stone with ashlar dressings and topped with a slate roof and stone stacks. It features a symmetrical triple-gabled west front, which includes a central gabled porch flanked by taller gables on each side. The gables are adorned with pierced curvilinear bargeboards and slender finials. The window openings are chamfered, with flat heads made of stone voussoirs, angled dripstones with dropped and returned ends, and stone sills.

The two-storey porch has stone quoins and diagonal buttresses at the ground level. The entrance doorway features a four-centred arch made of stone voussoirs with a dripmould, chamfered stone jambs, and outer boarded double-doors with applied fillets. On either side of the porch, the walls of the main house are set back and include a single chamfered slit in the gable head, a pair of 6+6 pane casements on the first floor, and an 8+8 casement on the ground floor.

The garden front faces south, with three 6+6 pane casements on the first floor. The ground floor features, from left to right, an 8+8 pane casement, a canted bay window with a central 8+8 pane casement flanked by 8-pane windows, and 20th-century glazed double-doors with an angled dripstone. At the back of the house, there are twin gables, each with bargeboards; the north gable is shorter than the south gable, and between them is a two-storey lean-to block.

Inside, the entrance doorway has a four-centred arched head and a 6-panel door with two glazed centre panels. This leads into a long, broad staircase lobby with an original 19th-century stair at the rear, featuring a shaped handrail and thin square-section balusters. The layout is a double-pile plan, with two ground-floor rooms on each side of the lobby and additional service rooms at the rear. Each side of the ground floor has a central fireplace placed back-to-back between the rooms. The ground floor also has 6-panel doors with panelled jambs, and the former kitchen on the left of the entry features a 20th-century moulded ceiling cornice. The large habitable attic has a boarded ceiling.

Local climate

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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