Shemmings Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. House. 5 related planning applications.
Shemmings Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- former-facade-rye
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 January 1982
- Type
- House
- Address
- Shemmings Farmhouse, Birch, CO2 0NY
- OS grid reference
- TL 924 204
- Coordinates
- 51.8496, 0.79327
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Shemmings Farmhouse is a 15th-century building that was extensively altered in the 16th century. It was originally a hall house and now comprises two gabled cross wings. The construction is timber-framed and plastered, with a red plain tile roof. The north-facing elevation has a five-window range of 19th-century casement windows. A two-storey gabled porch/staircase tower features an early 19th-century entrance door with moulded architraves and a simple flat head. A 15th-century red brick chimney stack is present, featuring four diagonal shafts. A two-storey cross wing style extension has been added to the west end, incorporating a one-window range of 19th-century casement windows and a 19th-century red brick chimney stack.
Local climate
Shemmings 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2016
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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