Barn to South of Thrifts Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. Barn. 1 related planning application.
Barn to South of Thrifts Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- lone-remnant-holly
- 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
- Barn
- Address
- Barn to South of Thrifts Farmhouse, Horkesley Hill, Great Horkesley, CO6 4JP
- OS grid reference
- TL 971 335
- Coordinates
- 51.96525, 0.8681
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an 18th-century barn located to the south of Thrifts Farmhouse in Horkesley. The barn is timber-framed and built upon a red brick footing. It is clad in black weatherboarding and has a corrugated iron roof. A full-length lean-to extends along the rear (east) elevation. The barn does not have midstreys.
Local climate
Barn to South of Thrifts Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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 — 1 transaction since 2012
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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