Highfields 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.
Highfields Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- small-threshold-frost
- 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
- Highfields Farmhouse, Fordham Road, West Bergholt, CO6 3DP
- OS grid reference
- TL 945 297
- Coordinates
- 51.93194, 0.829
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Highfields Farmhouse is a 17th century or earlier house that has been restored on the outside. It is timber framed and plastered, featuring a ridge and gambrel roof covered with peg tiles. The building has a long range with eaves and stands two storeys high. On the first storey, there are four modern wooden casement windows. The ground storey has a door on the right side and six casements of various types and sizes. There is a red brick chimney located near the center of the building, another small chimney at the left end, and a third red brick chimney on the extension at the right end, which has a ridged, gabled roof and peg tiles, along with an external oven on its end wall.
Local climate
Highfields 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- 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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