Great House Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. Farmhouse.
Great House Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- stony-slate-torch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 January 1982
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Great House Farmhouse, Malting Green, Layer-De-La-Haye
- OS grid reference
- TL 974 200
- Coordinates
- 51.84381, 0.86496
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Great House Farmhouse is a 16th-century house with alterations from the late 18th century. Originally timber-framed and plastered, it has been extensively faced in 18th-century painted brick. The building features one parallel range and has four gables facing the street, standing two storeys high. The window arrangement consists of a 1:1:2:1:1 pattern, with double hung vertical sliding sashes that include glazing bars and are set in segmental heads. The roof is covered with red plain tiles. Inside, the farmhouse retains 16th-century timber framing, which includes stop-chamfered joists and crosswing framing, along with 17th-century bridging brackets.
Local climate
Great House Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 670 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 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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