Kings Farmhouse is a Grade II* listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 April 1965. House.
Kings Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- patient-steeple-woodpecker
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Harwich and North Essex MP: Sir Bernard Jenkin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 April 1965
- Type
- House
- Address
- Kings Farmhouse, Kings Road, Little Horkesley
- OS grid reference
- TL 962 316
- Coordinates
- 51.94914, 0.85494
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Kings Farmhouse is a Grade II* listed building located on Kings Road in Little Horkesley. This house dates back to the 15th century or earlier and features a T-plan layout due to a brick extension added to the north, which has been painted. The structure is timber-framed and plastered, consisting of at least five bays. It has a red brick central chimney stack that is truncated and supports six octagonal shafts with bell-feet.
The roof is ridged and gabled, covered with peg tiles, and has eaves with a long jetty on the south elevation. The line of the jetty is interrupted at the center by a late fascia on the east side and exposed sill on joists on the west side. The first storey has five windows, with two casements on the left and three casements on the right, along with a tripartite window that retains its original 'ears'. The east half of the first storey has knees under the jetty, while the west side only shows the ends of the joists, which indicates an original chimney bay.
On the ground storey, the windows are a mix, including a large Venetian tripartite window on both sides of the central door, which consists of six panels and is partly original. The building is truncated on the west side, where two service doors are visible on that wall, revealing part of the exposed frame.
Local climate
Kings 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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