Palmers Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. Farmhouse.
Palmers Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- weathered-lintel-honey
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 January 1982
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Palmers Farmhouse, Dobbie's Lane, Marks Tey
- OS grid reference
- TL 907 231
- Coordinates
- 51.87412, 0.76984
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Palmers Farmhouse is an early 19th-century house located on Dobbie's Lane in Marks Tey. It is constructed of painted brick and features three bays and two storeys, with corner pilasters on the front and a hipped slated roof. There are two stock brick chimney stacks positioned behind the ridge. The first storey has three small paned, hornless sash windows, while the ground storey has two matching windows alongside a central door with six fielded panels set in fielded reveals, topped by a flat hood supported by iron brackets. Additionally, there are two stucco pilasters flanking the door.
Local climate
Palmers Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 650 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 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% 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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