The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 November 1984. House.

The Old Rectory

WRENN ID
sunken-iron-grove
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 November 1984
Type
House
Address
The Old Rectory, Pebmarsh Road, Alphamstone
OS grid reference
TL 876 353
Coordinates
51.98505, 0.73059
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old Rectory is a house that has a 16th-century core and was extended to primarily become a 19th-century building in the Gothick style. It features a timber frame with plaster and is roofed with handmade red clay tiles. The original structure includes a 16th-century, two-bay crosswing aligned approximately northwest to southeast, which has an internal chimney stack on the northeast side, indicative of a former hall house. There is also a timber-framed range on the original site and a second crosswing with two internal chimney stacks, dating from the 18th or 19th century.

To the northwest of the original crosswing, there are two-storey brick extensions with two internal chimney stacks, built in the late 19th century. The house has a porch on the southwest side and stands two storeys high with attics. The southeast elevation features two Gothick French windows with moulded labels and two Gothick sash windows with 4-8-2 lights. On the first floor, there are two casements with moulded labels and two projecting casements supported on brackets, each with gabled hoods that cut the eaves line, all from the 19th century. The gables have moulded bands and grouped diagonal shafts.

The main entrance is on the southwest side, featuring a half-glazed door with eight lights and two-centred tracery, situated in a two-storey porch with four-centred arches on three sides. There is also a first-floor sash window with nine lights and a moulded label. Inside the southwest wing, there is a binding beam with deep chamfers and exposed joists of wide section with narrower spaces between, along with evidence of an underbuilt jetty. Early 19th-century folding shutters are present in the room to the northeast. The building is marked as a Parsonage on Chapman and Andre's map from 1777.

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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