The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 October 1983. House. 6 related planning applications.

The Old Rectory

WRENN ID
deep-rubble-lake
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Uttlesford
Constituency
North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 October 1983
Type
House
Address
The Old Rectory, Dunmow Road, High Roothing, CM6 1PB
OS grid reference
TL 597 162
Coordinates
51.82229, 0.31679
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old Rectory is an early 19th-century rectory, altered in the 19th century and now used as a private house. It is constructed of painted brick in a Flemish bond pattern, with slate roofs. The building is square in plan, featuring chimney stacks in the northeast and southwest walls. A corner wing has been added to the south, with a chimney stack in its southwest wall. The house has two storeys. The northeast elevation, which is the main entrance front, has a projecting chimney stack and a door with six fielded panels and a plain light above, flanked by pilasters with a broken pediment supported by consoles. Below is a pair of two-light sash windows set beneath a shallow segmental arch. The first floor features three nine-light sash windows, each with a flat brick arch and louvred shutters. The southeast elevation, on the corner wing, has a single early 19th-century twelve-light sash window with a shallow segmental arch. The main block of the house has central French windows within a round arch, and tripartite sash windows extending nearly to the floor, each set beneath a shallow segmental arch. The first floor of this elevation contains four early 19th-century twelve-light sash windows, each with a flat brick arch and louvred shutters. The roofs are hipped and have a shallow pitch.

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 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% 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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