Kemp's Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. House.
Kemp's Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- grim-ashlar-bone
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Harwich and North Essex MP: Sir Bernard Jenkin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 January 1982
- Type
- House
- Address
- Kemp's Farmhouse, Turkey Cock Lane, Eight Ash Green
- OS grid reference
- TL 928 245
- Coordinates
- 51.88639, 0.80144
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Kemp's Farmhouse is a 17th-century house featuring five bays and two storeys. It is framed in timber and has a front made of red brick laid in Flemish bond. The roof is ridged and gabled, covered with peg tiles, and has a large red brick chimney stack at the center. The ground storey includes a central porch flanked by a set of three casement windows with a transom, while the first storey has three matching casements, with the central one having only two lights. There is a lean-to at the rear, which is of later date. Inside, the oak frame displays bladed scarf joints.
Local climate
Kemp's 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2019
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