Barnards Farmhouse is a Grade II* listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. A Medieval Farmhouse.
Barnards Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- night-rubble-rain
- 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
- Farmhouse
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Barnards Farmhouse, Wakes Colne Road, Fordham
- OS grid reference
- TL 919 273
- Coordinates
- 51.91134, 0.78986
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Barnards Farmhouse is a 14th-century timber-framed and plastered house that has a T-plan layout, although it was originally designed in an H-plan, which has since been reduced. The crosswing at the north end juts out to the east on three knees. The roofs are ridged and gabled, covered with peg tiles, and there is one east-facing dormer on the hall range, along with a small red brick chimney stack at the south end of the hall. Inside, there is a knee-supported binding-joist in the crosswing and an intruded first floor on clamps in the hall. The hall roof features a crown-post on a tie-beam of quadrate section, with broach-stops on the tie-beam supported by heavy perpendicular braces. The former solar has extensive wind-bracing and retains its original crown-post roof.
Local climate
Barnards 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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