The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 March 1986. House.
The Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- tall-brick-thistle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 March 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Rectory, Norman Hill, Terling
- OS grid reference
- TL 766 148
- Coordinates
- 51.80461, 0.56041
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory is a house built in the early 19th century, with an extension added in the same period. It is constructed from gault brick and has a slate roof. The building has a double pile plan that faces southwest, featuring two internal stacks that are symmetrically arranged. To the left of the main range is an early 19th-century extension that is set back from the main elevation, which includes one external stack on the left and one rear stack. There is also a service range at the rear of the right end and a conservatory to the right of the main range.
The house is two storeys tall. On the ground floor, there are four early 19th-century sash windows with 12 lights each and one with 8 lights, all featuring flat heads made of gauged brick and recessed under round arches of gauged brick. The first floor has four early 19th-century sash windows with 3 + 6 lights, complete with external louvred shutters, and one 20th-century sash window with 2 lights. The centrally placed entrance features a six-panel door with a fanlight and radial tracery, recessed under a round arch of gauged brick. A plaster band runs below the sills of the first-floor windows. Both roofs have a shallow pitch and are hipped.
The Old Rectory was built for William Goodday, who served as the rector of the parish from 1801 to 1848, and the extension was designed to match the original structure. Memorials to him and his family can be found in the parish church.
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 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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