Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. House. 3 related planning applications.
Rectory
- WRENN ID
- empty-bastion-blackthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Harwich and North Essex MP: Sir Bernard Jenkin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 January 1982
- Type
- House
- Address
- Rectory, Plummers Road, Fordham, CO6 3NR
- OS grid reference
- TL 930 294
- Coordinates
- 51.93012, 0.80576
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Rectory is a late 18th century and early 19th century house built on a square plan. It features rendered elevations and a front porch designed in the Regency style, which includes a pediment supported by fluted square columns, a radial fanlight, and double front doors. The building has hornless sash windows with glazing bars in exposed boxes on either side of the entrance, and there are three matching windows on the first storey. The roofs are hipped and slated, with eaves. There are red brick chimneys on the left and right, topped with gault brick. To the right, there is a gault brick extension that also has a slated hipped roof.
Local climate
Rectory sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 650 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 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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
- No sale records on file
- 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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