The Priest's House is a Grade II listed building in the Rochford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 August 1980. House. 1 related planning application.
The Priest's House
- WRENN ID
- over-chamber-crag
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rochford
- Constituency
- Rayleigh and Wickford MP: Mr Mark Francois (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 August 1980
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Priest's House, 109, Ashingdon Road, Hawkwell, SS4 1RF
- OS grid reference
- TQ 870 911
- Coordinates
- 51.58811, 0.69914
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Priest's House is a house dating from around 1500, with later alterations and additions, built for Richard Lord Rich. It features a timber frame that is faced with 18th-century red brick and has a hipped roof covered in red plain tiles. There is no visible chimney stack from the road. The house has two storeys and attics, with two square-headed dormers that contain two-light casements. A dentilled eaves cornice adds detail to the roofline.
On the first floor, there are three small paned vertically sliding sash windows. The ground floor has 19th-century angled bay windows on both the right and left sides, also with vertically sliding sashes that include glazing bars. The central entrance consists of a two-panelled door topped with three lights, framed by a moulded surround and a pediment. To the right side of the house, facing Ashingdon Road, there is a two-window range of small paned vertically sliding sashes with segmental heads, along with part-glazed double doors.
Inside, the house features an 18th-century staircase and fireplaces. The main range includes jowled storey posts and stop-chamfered bridging joists, while the rear range has heavy jowled storey posts and sooted rafters from the open hall. The property was part of the Lord Rich estate in 1557 and is marked as Swanes on the Chapman and Andre map of 1777.
Local climate
The Priest's House receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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 — 1 application
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