Barritt's 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.
Barritt's Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- swift-facade-tarn
- 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
- Barritt's Farmhouse, Queens Head Road, Boxted, CO4 5RJ
- OS grid reference
- TL 992 315
- Coordinates
- 51.94639, 0.89756
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Barritt's Farmhouse is a 16th century or earlier house built in an H-plan layout. The walls are plastered, and it features roof ridges of uniform height, gables, peg-tiles, and eaves. There is a rebuilt concertina chimney stack located near the return of the west wing, and the entire structure is aligned east-west. A gabled porch is positioned in front of the main chimney, which has a modern front door. The gables are adorned with wavey vergeboards. The windows are a mix, including casements arranged in sets of two or three, with one pair of Gothic casements in the ground storey of the east wing, and three pointed lights. The west wing jetties out on the outside long wall, supported by Jacobean pierced and pendanted brackets. The rear elevation features Gothic windows.
Local climate
Barritt's 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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- 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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