The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 August 1986. House. 3 related planning applications.

The Old Rectory

WRENN ID
tilted-string-ivy
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 August 1986
Type
House
Address
The Old Rectory, Great Henny
OS grid reference
TL 860 379
Coordinates
52.00907, 0.70955
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old Rectory is a house that dates from the 17th century or earlier. It features a timber frame with plaster and has gabled roofs covered in peg tiles. The main section of the house has a shorter parallel range at the rear, along with a block at right angles that was added in the early 19th century, constructed from painted gault brick and topped with a slate roof. The building is two storeys high and has a small off-centre ridge line stack on the main block, as well as a gault brick stack on the early 19th-century extension at its northern gable end. The front of the house includes four 20th-century casement windows with small panes, situated above five French doors that also have small panes. There is a 20th-century pedimented doorcase located on the east side of the building.

Local climate

The Old Rectory sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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