Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1958. A C16 Residential. 2 related planning applications.
Rectory
- WRENN ID
- peeling-bastion-vermeil
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 January 1958
- Type
- Residential
- Address
- Rectory, Whatfield Road, Elmsett, IP7 6NA
- OS grid reference
- TM 054 466
- Coordinates
- 52.08044, 0.99759
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a 16th-century timber-framed and plastered rectory, situated on a moated site, and modified in the 18th century and later. The building has a tiled roof, hipped at the ends, and a prominent ridge chimney stack with four octagonal shafts that have moulded bases. These shafts have been shortened and topped with chimney pots. The rectory has an L-shaped layout, with wings extending to the northeast and southeast; the southeast wing, originally a cross wing, is now part of the main building. It is two storeys high, with attics, and has a six-window facade of casement windows. A Tuscan portico with simple columns and a cornice shelters the doorway. John Boise, a scholar and divine, is believed to have been born at the rectory and later served as its rector.
Local climate
Rectory sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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