Rectory Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 July 1984. House. 11 related planning applications.
Rectory Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- lunar-spindle-lark
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 July 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Rectory Farmhouse, Gestingthorpe
- OS grid reference
- TL 813 374
- Coordinates
- 52.00603, 0.64139
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rectory Farmhouse is a house dating from the late 17th century to early 18th century. It features a red brick facing and a hipped red tiled roof with projecting eaves. There are red brick chimney stacks at both the right and left ridge ends. The building has two storeys and a three-window range of vertically sliding sash windows with glazed margins, each with a segmental head. The central door has three lights above it, flanked by plain pilasters with moulded capitals, and is topped by a flat canopy.
Local climate
Rectory Farmhouse 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 2001
- Related listed building consents — 11 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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