Knowles Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Knowles Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- seventh-kitchen-marsh
- 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
- Knowles Farmhouse, London Road, Great Horkesley, CO6 4BU
- OS grid reference
- TL 963 308
- Coordinates
- 51.94165, 0.85496
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Knowles Farmhouse is a house with a front elevation dating from around 1800, featuring a complex plan that incorporates earlier structures. The front is plastered and has a central front door made up of six fielded panels, which is set in a reeded case with a flat hood and fusil decoration. On either side of the door, there is a pair of six-pane hornless sash windows. The first storey has three smaller sash windows. The roof is ridged and hipped, covered with peg tiles, and has eaves.
Local climate
Knowles 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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