Farm Building to North of Lower Dairy Farmhouse on Street Frontage is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. A C17 Farm building.

Farm Building to North of Lower Dairy Farmhouse on Street Frontage

WRENN ID
muffled-timber-shade
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
Farm building
Address
Farm Building to North of Lower Dairy Farmhouse on Street Frontage, Nayland Road, Little Horkesley
OS grid reference
TL 966 330
Coordinates
51.96124, 0.86069
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a 17th-century timber farm building located to the north of Lower Dairy Farmhouse, positioned on the street frontage along Nayland Road in Little Horkesley. The building has two storeys and is clad in weatherboard, topped with a peg-tiled, ridged gabled roof. There is a door in the gable facing the street, and the northern section may have originally served as a granary.

Local climate

Farm Building to North of Lower Dairy Farmhouse on Street Frontage 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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