Godbolts Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. Farmhouse.
Godbolts Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- sombre-panel-khaki
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 January 1982
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Godbolts Farmhouse, Coggeshall Road, Marks Tey
- OS grid reference
- TL 895 233
- Coordinates
- 51.87677, 0.75228
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Godbults Farmhouse is a building likely dating from the 15th century. It has an H-plan layout with long wings that are framed in timber and plastered, topped with ridged, gabled roofs covered in peg tiles. The farmhouse features a central red brick chimney stack. On the ground floor, there is a central gabled porch, and each cross-wing has leaded casement windows with a 1/1 configuration. Additionally, there is one gabled dormer on the hall roof and a gabled bay window to the left of the porch on the ground floor. Inside, the heavy timber frame is visible.
Local climate
Godbolts Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 650 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 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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