Monks Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. A Georgian Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Monks Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- burning-frieze-equinox
- 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
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- Monks Farmhouse, Coles Oak Lane, Dedham, CO7 6DR
- OS grid reference
- TM 043 326
- Coordinates
- 51.95446, 0.97261
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Monks Farmhouse is a building dating from around 1700. It has two storeys and is plastered, featuring a steeply pitched roof covered with peg tiles and two red brick chimneys at either end. The central entrance on the ground floor is framed by a case with a pediment, and the door itself has four panels with five lights above it. On either side of the door, there are sash windows in exposed boxes, each with small panes. Additionally, there are three matching windows along the first storey, and the eaves are present.
Local climate
Monks Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- 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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