The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1988. House. 2 related planning applications.
The Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- roaming-postern-ash
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 July 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Rectory, Church Road, Bradwell, CM77 8BG
- OS grid reference
- TL 819 243
- Coordinates
- 51.88794, 0.64309
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory is a house that dates back to the 16th century, with extensions added in the 18th and 19th centuries. It is primarily constructed from timber framing and plaster, with some sections made of painted and plastered brick, and it has a roof covered with handmade red plain tiles. The building has a complex layout, featuring a main range that runs northeast to southwest, with 18th and 19th-century extensions on both sides of the southwest end, and a large crosswing from around 1800 at the northeast end that extends to the northwest. There are also additional lean-to extensions around three sides of the courtyard to the northwest.
The house is mainly two storeys tall, with attics, while the large crosswing has two high storeys. The main elevation faces southeast. On the ground floor, there is one early 19th-century sash window with 8 + 12 lights and another with 12 + 12 lights. The first floor features one sash window from the 19th or 20th century with 12 lights, along with two early 19th-century sashes with 8 + 8 lights. Some of the windows contain crown glass. In the attic, there is one 19th-century casement window. The entrance includes an early 19th-century five-panel door, with the top panels glazed, set in a trellised gabled porch. The northeast elevation has more sashes with crown glass.
Inside, the main range has jowled posts, and the southwest bay features a dragon beam with under-built jetties to the southwest and northwest. There are chamfered beams with step stops, and the wallplates are also chamfered with step stops. The roof is accessible but entirely plastered in the attics. An early 19th-century staircase features stick balusters and a wreathed handrail.
Local climate
The Old Rectory sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% 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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- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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