Coach House to the Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 May 1987. Coach-house.
Coach House to the Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- first-arch-brook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 May 1987
- Type
- Coach-house
- Address
- Coach House to the Old Rectory, Rectory Hill, East Bergholt
- OS grid reference
- TM 075 345
- Coordinates
- 51.97023, 1.02054
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The coach house to The Old Rectory is an 18th-century structure that is timber-framed and weatherboarded, topped with a plain tile roof. It is a single storey with a loft and features a pointed studded door adorned with diamond panels and long strap hinges. There is also a casement window with a single opening light. The roof is hipped and gableted. This building is noted for its connection to a painting by John Constable depicting The Old Rectory and is included for its group value.
Local climate
Coach House to the Old 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 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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