Friars Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. Farmhouse.
Friars Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- knotted-ashlar-finch
- 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
- Address
- Friars Farmhouse, Wakes Colne Road, Fordham
- OS grid reference
- TL 919 274
- Coordinates
- 51.91222, 0.78945
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Friars Farmhouse is a 16th century and later timber-framed and plastered house designed in an L-plan. It features a unit of exposed timber framing that is two storeys high, facing the street. The roofs are ridged and gabled, covered with peg tiles. The windows are modern leaded casements. Extending north from the return of the plan is a long range with rendered walls and a machine-made tiled roof.
Local climate
Friars 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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