Holts Farmhouse is a Grade II* listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. Farmhouse. 4 related planning applications.
Holts Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- dark-beam-saffron
- 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
- Holts Farmhouse, Holt Road, Little Horkesley, CO6 4DR
- OS grid reference
- TL 947 311
- Coordinates
- 51.94452, 0.83274
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Holts Farmhouse is a Grade II* listed building dating from around 1750. It features a complex L-shaped plan with a parallel range extending from the long side. The farmhouse is two storeys high and has a false parapet, along with three red brick chimney stacks. The front is finished in ashlar marked plaster, and the central entrance door has six fielded panels, flanked by two Ionic columns that support a pediment with dentilled soffits, both horizontal and inclined. There are three stone steps leading up to the door. On either side of the door, there are two pairs of thinly barred hornless sash windows with glazing bars in exposed boxes. The first storey has a range of five matching windows, with the central window featuring an eared wooden architrave with volutes at the base, positioned above the sill. The building has a parapet cornice with mutules beneath a Gothic arcade, and the roof is hipped and covered with peg tiles.
Local climate
Holts 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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