The Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 May 1984. A C19 Rectory. 4 related planning applications.
The Rectory
- WRENN ID
- tenth-flagstone-thunder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 May 1984
- Type
- Rectory
- Address
- The Rectory, Church Lane, Ridgewell, CO9 4SA
- OS grid reference
- TL 739 408
- Coordinates
- 52.03908, 0.53445
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Rectory is an early 19th-century rectory, situated on Church Lane, Ridgewell. It is constructed of gault brick and red brick in a Flemish bond pattern, with a slate roof. The building has a double-pile, near-square plan and faces east, featuring two internal chimney stacks arranged symmetrically. It is two storeys high. The front elevation is of gault brick and features giant pilasters at the corners. A central porch contains a 19th-century glazed door, flanked by fluted columns and an entablature with triglyphs. The ground floor has two double-hung sash windows of 12 lights each, with flat brick arches, while the first floor has three such windows. The roof is hipped with a shallow pitch, long overhanging eaves with panelled soffits, and gault brick chimneys. The overall front elevation presents a symmetrical appearance. The remaining walls are of red brick, with gault brick giant pilasters at each corner.
Local climate
The Rectory sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2014
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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