Church Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 April 1965. A C16 House. 2 related planning applications.
Church Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-jade-starling
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Harwich and North Essex MP: Sir Bernard Jenkin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 April 1965
- Type
- House
- Address
- Church Farmhouse, Langham, CO4 5PS
- OS grid reference
- TM 034 337
- Coordinates
- 51.96491, 0.9601
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Church Farmhouse is a 16th-century house and earlier, situated in Langham. It is a timber-framed and plastered building with a complex plan. The house is two storeys high and has ridged, gabled roofs covered in peg tiles. Two plain red brick chimneys are present. The south front features a jettied cross-wing on the right-hand side and a two-storey jettied porch with a cut strapwork fascia supported by profiled brackets. A Renaissance doorway is set within the porch, flanked by modern mullioned, transomed and leaded casements. The first storey has three, three-light leaded modern casements.
Local climate
Church 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2003
- 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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