Boxhouse Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 April 1965. Farmhouse.
Boxhouse Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- gilded-pewter-lake
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Harwich and North Essex MP: Sir Bernard Jenkin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 April 1965
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Boxhouse Farmhouse, Box Lane, Dedham
- OS grid reference
- TM 039 326
- Coordinates
- 51.9545, 0.96696
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Boxhouse Farmhouse is a 16th-century house that features a timber-framed and plastered structure with two storeys and a rectangular plan. The building has a ridged, gabled roof covered with peg tiles and a central red brick chimney stack dating from the 17th century. At the front, there is a projecting gabled porch that is two storeys high, which includes a six-panelled door and a modern window above it. Flanking the porch are casement windows on both the first and ground storeys. The house is adorned with scalloped vergeboards and finials, and it retains some pargetted panels along with an Escalop band on the first floor. The layout includes a long, hipped rear wing that is also two storeys high and features its own central red brick chimney stack. Inside, there are two notable late 17th-century plaster ceilings and remnants of the original roof construction.
Local climate
Boxhouse Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% 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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