Moat Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. Farmhouse.
Moat Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- steep-jade-swallow
- 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
- Address
- Moat Farmhouse, Turkey Cock Lane, Eight Ash Green
- OS grid reference
- TL 932 249
- Coordinates
- 51.88961, 0.80661
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Moat Farmhouse is a house dating from around 1690 and earlier, situated on a moated site. It has two storeys and attics, featuring three bays with additional rear ranges. The front elevation is made of red brick in Flemish bond, with a stone string course beneath the attic level and a stone-coped parapet topped with a peg-tiled roof. The parapet includes two sunken panels, which may have been former windows. There are two red brick chimney stacks on the rear slope.
The central front door on the ground floor has six fielded panels and is set beneath an Ionic portico supported by two round columns and two pilasters. On the first storey, there is a range of three double-hung sash windows in exposed boxes, with one matching sash window on each side of the door on the ground floor. The window heads are stuccoed, possibly over gauged brick arches, and the frames are made of pine.
Local climate
Moat 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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