Parsonage Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. House.
Parsonage Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- third-lintel-thrush
- 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
- House
- Address
- Parsonage Farmhouse, Church Road, Boxted
- OS grid reference
- TM 000 332
- Coordinates
- 51.9616, 0.91034
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Parsonage Farmhouse is a 17th-century house located on Boxted Church Road. It features two parallel ranges that are timber framed and plastered, with gabled roofs covered in peg tiles. The house has two red brick chimney stacks positioned on the ridge. On the street side, there are three gabled dormers with casement windows. The ground floor includes one casement window on the right, two small pane sash windows on the left, and a panelled door set in a peg-tiled gabled porch.
Local climate
Parsonage Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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 — 9 transactions since 1997
- No related consent applications matched
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