Churchman's Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 August 1972. Farmhouse.
Churchman's Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-soffit-vale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 August 1972
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Churchman's Farmhouse, the Street, Messing-Cum-Inworth
- OS grid reference
- TL 879 179
- Coordinates
- 51.82857, 0.72658
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Churchman's Farmhouse is an early 16th-century timber-framed and plastered house located in Messing-cum-Inworth. It has two storeys and features a red plain tile roof. The farmhouse includes a gabled cross wing with a jetty at the north end. The front has a three-window range of 18th-century vertical sliding double-hung sashes with glazing bars. The original frame is exposed on the cross wing, showcasing curved wall bracing. There are 19th-century red brick chimneys, and modern extensions have been added to the south and rear. Inside, the original frame includes stop-chamfered beams and a crown post roof in the cross wing.
Local climate
Churchman's 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 lower than that of 60% 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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