The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 February 1950. Rectory.
The Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- turning-postern-falcon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Harwich and North Essex MP: Sir Bernard Jenkin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 February 1950
- Type
- Rectory
- Address
- The Old Rectory, 143, Hythe Hill
- OS grid reference
- TM 011 247
- Coordinates
- 51.88473, 0.92128
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory is a small red brick Georgian building located on the north side of Hythe Hill. It features a two-storey main block with a parapet front and a band below. The façade includes a three-window range of double-hung sash windows with glazing bars. The two ground floor windows on either side of the central doorcase are Venetian. The doorcase is topped with a simple wooden pediment and contains a six-panel door. The roofs of the building are tiled. An addition on the northwest side has a hipped gable at the front.
Local climate
The Old Rectory sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 670 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 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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