The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1984. Rectory. 5 related planning applications.
The Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- swift-hall-bramble
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Epping Forest
- Constituency
- Harlow MP: Chris Vince (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 April 1984
- Type
- Rectory
- Address
- The Old Rectory, Church Lane, Sheering, CM22 7NR
- OS grid reference
- TL 508 135
- Coordinates
- 51.80045, 0.18646
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory is a rectory from the 18th century that was extended around 1800 and is now a private house. It is constructed from gault brick and stucco, with a roof made of handmade red clay tiles. The original 18th-century structure is two storeys high with attics and features an axial chimney stack, aligned approximately northeast to southwest. The Gothick-style extensions added around 1800 include two storeys to the northeast and west, and a single storey to the northwest. An internal chimney stack is located in the northeast wall.
On the southeast garden elevation, the ground floor has a French window and a bay with three 20th-century double-hung sash windows, along with two early 19th-century double-hung sash windows that contain some crown glass. The first floor features two 20th-century double-hung sash windows, a bay with three early 19th-century double-hung sash windows, and two additional windows with some crown glass. The roof on the southwest side includes three hipped dormers. The Gothick extension to the northeast is characterized by a crenellated parapet with octagonal corner towers, as well as drip moulding and label mouldings above the windows. Some smoke-blackened medieval rafters have been reused in the roof of the southwest block, and the southwest chimney stack is partly made of reused 16th-century bricks mixed with later bricks, which are exposed in the ground floor room on the southwest side.
Local climate
The Old Rectory sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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 2021
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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