Nevards Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. House. 1 related planning application.
Nevards Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- second-terrace-burdock
- 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
- House
- Address
- Nevards Farmhouse, Church Street, Great Horkesley, CO6 4AL
- OS grid reference
- TL 977 315
- Coordinates
- 51.9472, 0.87605
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nevards Farmhouse is a 16th-century house located in Great Horkesley. It has two bays with a central chimney bay and is two storeys high, framed in timber. At the rear, there is an extension that forms a T-plan. The front elevation is plastered and features two casement windows on each storey, with pairs of three-light Gothic windows. The roofs are ridged and gabled, covered with peg tiles and topped with crested blue glazed ridge bonnets. A central red brick chimney stack has three octagonal shafts.
Local climate
Nevards 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- 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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