Wash Farmhouse is a Grade II* listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Wash Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- tired-fireplace-woodpecker
- 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
- Wash Farmhouse, Wakes Colne Road, Fordham, CO6 3LL
- OS grid reference
- TL 919 273
- Coordinates
- 51.91193, 0.78873
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wash Farmhouse is a 13th century house with a later east wing from the 18th century, constructed in red brick with Flemish bonding. The main range runs north to south and is framed in timber, now rendered. The roofs are ridged and gabled from north to south, and ridged and hip-ended from east to west, all covered in machine-made clay tiles. The north-east elevation features three pairs of eight-pane hornless sash windows in exposed boxes, arranged two over one, with a modern front door located on the right. The timber framing is substantial and well-crafted, with a roof that is unique based on available published information. This roof includes jowled queen-posts that support wide flat collars, with side purlins laid flat over them. A flat-laid ridge piece is mounted on bifurcated king-posts cut from the crown-forks of oaks. The king-posts are finely stop-chamfered, and the purlins are arch-braced beneath in line with the queen-posts. Two bays of this roof are complete and in pristine condition.
Local climate
Wash 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2006
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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