The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 August 1984. House. 3 related planning applications.
The Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- crooked-wattle-poplar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 August 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Rectory, North End Road, Little Yeldham, CO9 4LE
- OS grid reference
- TL 780 394
- Coordinates
- 52.02465, 0.59433
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory is a house dating from the 16th and 19th centuries. It is timber framed, primarily covered with red brick, and has a roof made of handmade red clay tiles. The main part of the building is aligned northwest to southeast and features an axial chimney stack at the northwest end. The southeast crosswing, which is from the 16th century, has one internal chimney stack and a 19th-century external chimney stack at its northwest end. The northwest crosswing, built in the 19th century, includes an internal chimney stack at the northwest end and a single-storey lean-to extension beyond it. There is also a 19th-century gabled porch and a small lean-to extension at the southeast end of the house.
The building has two storeys. On the southwest elevation, there is one bay with two casement windows and one tripartite double-hung sash window on the ground floor, all from the 19th century. The first floor features four casement windows and one tripartite double-hung sash window, also all from the 19th century. The gables display imitation framing. The chimney stack in the southeast crosswing has grouped diagonal shafts from the early 17th century, while the external stack has grouped diagonal shafts from the 19th century.
Inside the southeast crosswing, there are jowled posts, heavy studding with curved braces set inside, one panel of exposed wattle and daub, joists of horizontal section, and a clasped purlin roof with curved wind bracing.
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 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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