The Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 July 1951. House.
The Rectory
- WRENN ID
- little-ember-marsh
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- South West Norfolk MP: Terry Jermy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 July 1951
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Rectory, Bridgham
- OS grid reference
- TL 958 857
- Coordinates
- 52.43479, 0.87924
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Rectory is a house dating from around 1770, with early 19th-century enlargements. It is constructed of flint and brick, rendered, and features a pantiled roof at the rear and a slate roof at the front. The building has a double pile plan with hipped roofs. The facade is two storeys high and consists of five bays. A central porch with two columns and a flat entablature is a notable feature. The windows are sash style and include glazing bars.
Local climate
The Rectory sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% 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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