Whitepark Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. House.
Whitepark Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- sharp-glass-quill
- 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
- Whitepark Farmhouse, Park Lane, Great Horkesley
- OS grid reference
- TL 979 330
- Coordinates
- 51.96073, 0.87926
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Whitepark Farmhouse is a late 17th century house featuring four bays and two storeys, topped with a ridged and gabled roof covered in modern tiles. The exterior is rendered, and there is a modern chimney stack. The north front has a row of four windows on the first storey, along with a smaller window positioned before the chimney. All windows are set in wide wooden cases. At the rear, the house has two gabled wings.
Local climate
Whitepark 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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