Rockingham's Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. Farmhouse.
Rockingham's Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- idle-cobble-rye
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 January 1982
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Rockingham's Farmhouse, Stockhouse Road, Layer Marney
- OS grid reference
- TL 922 164
- Coordinates
- 51.8137, 0.78739
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rockingham's Farmhouse is an early 19th-century house constructed of red brick, featuring a grey slate hipped roof. The building stands two storeys high and includes a two-storey late 19th-century extension to the south. It has a four-window range with vertical sliding sashes that have glazing bars. A projecting two-storey red brick porch, also with a grey slate hipped roof, adds to its character. The red brick chimney stacks have been rebuilt in the upper part around 1890. The roof is of a triple range design. Inside, the farmhouse retains its original staircase with turned balusters and vertical shutters on the windows.
Local climate
Rockingham'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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