Potters Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. A C17 House.
Potters Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- knotted-bonework-hawthorn
- 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
- House
- Address
- Potters Farmhouse, Green Lane, Great Horkesley
- OS grid reference
- TL 985 323
- Coordinates
- 51.95461, 0.88818
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Potters Farmhouse is a 17th-century house located on Great Horkesley Green Lane. It is timber-framed and has two storeys, featuring a plastered front and a black weatherboarded south gable. The south outshut has a corrugated iron roof, while the main roof is ridged and gabled, covered with peg tiles. The first storey displays a range of three modern casement windows, and the ground storey has a range of four matching windows along with a front door on the south side. There is a red brick chimney stack with two diagonal shafts that has been rebuilt.
Local climate
Potters Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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