Threshers is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. A C19 House. 2 related planning applications.
Threshers
- WRENN ID
- tangled-solder-hyssop
- 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
- Threshers, Plummers Road, Fordham, CO6 3NP
- OS grid reference
- TL 931 292
- Coordinates
- 51.92826, 0.80815
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Threshers is an early to mid 19th century house constructed of painted brick in a Flemish bond pattern. The building has two storeys and features two parallel ranges with low pitched ridge and gable roofs that are slated. At the front, there is a central gabled porch, flanked by two pairs of horned two-pane sash windows on either side. The first storey includes a range of four matching windows. Additionally, there are two red brick chimney stacks positioned equidistantly along the front slope of the roof.
Local climate
Threshers 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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