The Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 April 1984. House. 2 related planning applications.
The Rectory
- WRENN ID
- scattered-casement-lichen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Epping Forest
- Constituency
- Brentwood and Ongar MP: Alex Burghart (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 April 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Rectory, Stony Lane, Bobbingworth, CM5 0DQ
- OS grid reference
- TL 536 055
- Coordinates
- 51.72731, 0.22274
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Rectory is a house built around 1839 by Reverend W. M. Oliver, replacing an earlier rectory on the same site. It is constructed from gault brick and features hipped grey slate roofs. The main range has three storeys and a basement, while to the left is a two-storey range with an attic that includes two gabled dormers on the left return wall. Attached to this range is a single-storey side entrance extension. To the right of the main range is another single-storey extension, which has a large vertical sliding sash window with sidelights on the right return wall. This extension features a moulded stone parapet, and a brick band runs through the other ranges.
The building has a window arrangement of 1:1:3, consisting of small-paned vertical sliding sashes. The ground floor windows of the main block have aprons and flat canopies supported by moulded brackets. An enclosed stone porch, accessed by three steps, has a moulded stone canopy and a plain door with a light above it. Inside, there are panelled doors, window shutters, and moulded wainscoting and architraves. The roof has projecting eaves, and the top storey was added when the Rector's children numbered twelve. There are four symmetrically placed gault chimney stacks on the main block and a small chimney stack on the left range.
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 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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 — 1 transaction since 2015
- 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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