Games Farmhouse is a Grade II* listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. A Medieval Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.
Games Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- steep-corner-wren
- 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
- Games Farmhouse, Lower Road, Peldon, CO5 7PR
- OS grid reference
- TL 987 162
- Coordinates
- 51.80979, 0.88237
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Games Farmhouse is an early 15th century small hall house located on Peldon Lower Road. It is timber framed and features a red plain tile half hipped roof. The building has two storeys and includes a two-window range with modern casements. At the east end, there is a modern single storey extension that is weatherboarded and also has a red plain tile roof. To the south, there is an early 17th century timber framed extension with a red plain tile roof. The original structure was a two bay open hall with a floored end bay, and most of the original frame remains, showcasing high-quality workmanship. Notable internal features include screen doorways, a 16th century inserted first floor, an arch braced cambered tie beam with a cross quadrate crown post, stop-chamfered beams, and a raised tie beam in the west end frame. The 17th century wing also displays an exposed frame with heavy jowled storey posts.
Local climate
Games Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2024
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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