The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 July 1980. A Georgian Rectory. 2 related planning applications.
The Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- cold-flagstone-moss
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 July 1980
- Type
- Rectory
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- The Old Rectory, Church Hill, Monks Eleigh, IP7 7JL
- OS grid reference
- TL 966 478
- Coordinates
- 52.09393, 0.86901
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory is an early 19th century building made of grey gault brick, featuring a timber-framed and plastered wing that extends to the north. It has a hipped slate roof and stands two storeys tall. The south front includes a central two-storeyed bay with three windows that are splayed, along with one window range on each side. There is also one blocked window range at the east end. The windows are double-hung sashes with glazing bars.
Local climate
The Old 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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2002
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings