Payne's Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. Farmhouse.

Payne's Farmhouse

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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Colchester
Constituency
Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 January 1982
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Payne's Farmhouse, Colchester Road, Virley
OS grid reference
TL 944 145
Coordinates
51.79572, 0.81887
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Payne's Farmhouse is an 18th-century building that is timber framed and plastered, topped with a red plain tile roof. It stands two storeys high and features a three-window range of double-hung vertical sliding sashes with glazing bars. The central entrance has a pedimented doorcase and a six-panel door. The central window on the first floor has a semi-circular head. The farmhouse has a T-shaped plan, with a modern one-and-a-half storey extension at the rear that includes two dormer windows. There are chimney stacks at the end walls.

Local climate

Payne's 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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