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
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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