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
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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2011
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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