The Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. House.
The Rectory
- WRENN ID
- third-plinth-bramble
- 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
- The Rectory, Hall Road, Mount Bures
- OS grid reference
- TL 909 327
- Coordinates
- 51.96074, 0.77833
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Rectory is an early 19th-century building featuring a front that is complemented by two earlier parallel wings at the rear, creating a 'U' plan. The north front is constructed of gault brick and includes a central door topped by a rectangular fanlight. The building is two storeys high and has a three-window range, with four 6-pane sash windows on the ground floor and two 8-pane sash windows on the first floor, along with a central pair of 6-pane sashes. The roof is hipped and covered with slate.
At the rear, there are two elevations that showcase a fine 18th-century door with a pediment supported by consoles, along with an elaborate fanlight above it. The roofs at the rear are covered with peg tiles, and there are two red brick chimney stacks on each ridge. Inside, there is a notable staircase with bracketed tread ends and a mahogany handrail.
Local climate
The Rectory sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 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 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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