Thrifts Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. Farmhouse.
Thrifts Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- roaming-fireplace-yarrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Harwich and North Essex MP: Sir Bernard Jenkin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 January 1982
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Thrifts Farmhouse, Horkesley Hill, Great Horkesley
- OS grid reference
- TL 971 335
- Coordinates
- 51.96525, 0.86831
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Thrifts Farmhouse is an early 19th-century house that stands two storeys tall and features three bays. It is constructed of brick and has a T-shaped plan with a rendered front elevation. The central section has a semi-hexagonal bay that contains a pair of six-pane hornless sash windows, along with smaller side sashes, all beneath a leaded flat roof. On either side of this bay, there are pairs of six-pane sash windows. The first storey showcases three pairs of six-pane sash windows, each with projecting stucco or stone sills. The roofs are ridged and gabled, covered with red machine-made tiles, and there is a red brick chimney stack set into each gable.
Local climate
Thrifts Farmhouse 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 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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