Boarded Barn Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. House. 2 related planning applications.
Boarded Barn Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- grey-grate-magpie
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 January 1982
- Type
- House
- Address
- Boarded Barn Farmhouse, Boarded Barn Road, Copford, CO6 1DP
- OS grid reference
- TL 927 219
- Coordinates
- 51.86255, 0.79805
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Boarded Barn Farmhouse is a 17th century house that is timber framed and plastered, topped with a grey slate roof. The building has two storeys and attics, featuring a three-window range of 19th century casements. Above the door, there is a simple canopy supported by brackets. The house has a rectangular plan with three bays and a chimney bay, along with a lean-to extension at the west end. The original chimney stack has been partly rebuilt, and there is a 19th century chimney stack at the west end. The site was originally moated.
Local climate
Boarded Barn 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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