Old House Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. House. 1 related planning application.
Old House Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- sharp-pediment-shade
- 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
- Old House Farmhouse, Old House Road, Great Horkesley, CO6 4EQ
- OS grid reference
- TL 974 299
- Coordinates
- 51.93338, 0.87113
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old House Farmhouse is a house from the 18th and 19th centuries, with older origins. The east front is made of gault brick and features a blind set back bay on the south side, along with a range of seven sash windows on the first storey. These windows are pairs of hornless six-pane designs with voussoired straight heads and stone sills, located beneath a mutulated cornice and a stone-coped parapet. The central front door on the ground storey has six fielded panels within panelled reveals and is sheltered by an Ionic portico supported by two round wooden columns and two semi-circular pilasters. The entablature has concave sides and is dentilled. There is a gault chimney stack on the right, and the roof is hipped and covered with peg tiles, featuring leaded ridges. The building has an L-plan layout, and the joints in the Flemish bond walls are falsified. There are red brick walls enclosing the yard and a 19th-century summerhouse with a slate roof on the south side.
Local climate
Old House Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 670 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 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- 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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