The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. Rectory. 2 related planning applications.
The Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- guardian-balcony-yarrow
- 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
- Rectory
- Address
- The Old Rectory, Cooks Hall Road, West Bergholt, CO6 3EX
- OS grid reference
- TL 953 273
- Coordinates
- 51.91026, 0.83894
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory is an 18th century building located on Cooks Hall Road in West Bergholt. It is constructed with gault bricks and features two storeys and three bays, with a painted brick extension to the north. The central front door on the ground floor is set in a wide case, flanked by Ionic columns, and is topped with a semi-circular fanlight and a mutulated pediment. On either side of the door, there are straight arched windows with hornless sash frames. The first storey has a matching range of three windows, and the building is topped with a parapet and a hipped peg-tiled roof at the ends. A wing extends to the rear, made of painted brick, forming an L-plan. There are red brick garden walls on both sides, featuring ball-capped piers at the ends.
Local climate
The Old 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
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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