Gosbecks Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 December 1971. Farmhouse.
Gosbecks Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- final-lantern-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Colchester MP: Pam Cox (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 December 1971
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Gosbecks Farmhouse, Gosbecks Road
- OS grid reference
- TL 975 226
- Coordinates
- 51.86781, 0.8681
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gosbecks Farmhouse is a late 18th century building located on Gosbecks Road. The front block is constructed of red brick with a painted finish and stands two storeys high. It features a hipped roof on both the east and west sides and has a three-window range of double-hung sash windows with glazing bars. The rear of the farmhouse is timber-framed and tiled, with hipped roofs on the north and south sides.
Local climate
Gosbecks Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 670 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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