Rams Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. A Medieval Farmhouse.
Rams Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- turning-grate-soot
- 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
- Medieval
- Address
- Rams Farmhouse, West Bergholt Lane, Fordham
- OS grid reference
- TL 934 288
- Coordinates
- 51.92457, 0.81193
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rams Farmhouse is a house dating from around 1510. It is timber-framed, two storeys high, and has five bays, with a cladding of white weatherboards. The roof is ridged and gabled, covered with peg tiles. At the rear, there are two wings extending from the centre, one of which is a stair-tower. A red brick chimney stack with an 18th-century shaft is located near the centre of the ridge. The modern front door is situated beneath a leaded flat hood supported by two Doric pilasters made of softwood. All the windows are sash hung in exposed boxes, with four on the ground floor and five on the first floor. Inside, there is evidence of a first-floor hall, including a surviving crown-post in the attic. The original frame was exposed throughout, as it still is in the rear east angle.
Local climate
Rams 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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