The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. Rectory. 1 related planning application.
The Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- open-corner-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 January 1982
- Type
- Rectory
- Address
- The Old Rectory, Brook Road, Marks Tey, CO6 1JA
- OS grid reference
- TL 893 241
- Coordinates
- 51.8833, 0.7498
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory is a building dating from the 16th century or earlier, with later additions. It features a complex design comprising a T-plan and an additional range that runs parallel to the wing, forming the front elevation. The original T-plan structure is timber-framed and plastered, topped with ridge gabled, peg-tiled roofs and three red brick chimneys. The end of the stem range has a hipped roof, while the frontal range is made of painted brick.
On the first storey, there are three small-paned hornless sash windows, with the central one being narrower. The ground storey has a central door topped with a glazed Regency-style leaf, set beneath an Arabesque porch with a hollow-conoid lead roof. Flanking the door are three-part sash windows with two mullions, featuring small panes in the central and side lights. The south elevation includes a semi-circular bow window with three pairs of 6/6 paned sashes.
Local climate
The Old Rectory sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 660 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 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2014
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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