Winterfloods Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 May 1979. Farmhouse.
Winterfloods Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- muffled-truss-cream
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 May 1979
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Winterfloods Farmhouse, Well Lane, Birch
- OS grid reference
- TL 914 206
- Coordinates
- 51.85117, 0.77842
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Winterfloods Farmhouse is a late 16th century house that is timber framed and plastered. It has two storeys and a red plain tile roof, featuring a gabled cross wing at the north end. The house has two windows on the ground floor that are double hung with glazing bars, and double hung sashes with side lights on the first floor. The central entrance door is adorned with moulded architraves and a simple pediment head supported by brackets. There is a late 16th century central chimney stack made of red brick, along with a late 19th century red brick chimney stack at the north end. Internally, the house displays chamfered bridging joists and floor joists. There have been external alterations to the property.
Local climate
Winterfloods 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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