Garlands Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.
Garlands Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- spare-bastion-harvest
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 January 1982
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Garlands Farmhouse, Craye's Green, Birch, CO2 0NS
- OS grid reference
- TL 952 192
- Coordinates
- 51.83747, 0.83222
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Garlands Farmhouse is a late 17th century house constructed from stuccoed brick, topped with a hipped roof made of red plain tiles. The building has two storeys and features a two-window range of double hung vertical sliding sashes with glazing bars. A central red brick chimney stack is present on the main structure. At the rear, there is a timber framed wing clad in grey gault brick, also two storeys high, which includes a three-window range of double hung vertical sliding sashes with glazing bars. Additionally, there are 18th century red brick end chimney stacks.
Local climate
Garlands 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 greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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