Stockhouse Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. Farmhouse.

Stockhouse Farmhouse

WRENN ID
dusted-flue-quill
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Colchester
Constituency
Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 January 1982
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Stockhouse Farmhouse, Stockhouse Road, Layer Marney
OS grid reference
TL 917 174
Coordinates
51.82271, 0.78076
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Stockhouse Farmhouse is an 18th-century building that features a timber frame and weatherboarding. It stands two storeys tall, with a single storey and attic wing on the east side, as well as a lean-to at the rear. The ground floor has a window arrangement of three modern casements with glazing bars, while the first floor has four windows, including three early 19th-century casements and one vertical sliding double-hung sash. The original central entrance door has been blocked, and there is a modern door located in the east wing. The farmhouse also has 18th-century end chimney stacks.

Local climate

Stockhouse 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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