Lower Dairy Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 June 1952. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.

Lower Dairy Farmhouse

WRENN ID
tall-railing-wind
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Colchester
Constituency
Harwich and North Essex MP: Sir Bernard Jenkin (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 June 1952
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Lower Dairy Farmhouse, Nayland Road, Little Horkesley, CO6 4JS
OS grid reference
TL 966 330
Coordinates
51.96094, 0.86074
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Lower Dairy Farmhouse is a 16th-century building designed in a T-plan. It features a timber-framed structure with plastered infill, while the front is exposed. The main range consists of four bays and has been fitted with renewed wooden leaded casements. At the south end, there is a cross-wing that displays carved verge boards and a finial, along with a carved tie-beam that jetties out. The first storey shows traces of a Venetian three-part window, and there are remnants of a matching full-width window on the ground storey, which now has modern three-light mullion and transom leaded casements positioned centrally. The first floor girt is adorned with pairs of carved 'beasts' and an armorial escutcheon at the center. The verge boards are intricately carved with a vine trail, which is formalized and late in style. The roofs are covered with peg tiles on the ridge and gable. There is a 17th-century red brick chimney located at the center of the long range. Additionally, there is a gable porch at the center front on the west side.

Local climate

Lower Dairy Farmhouse 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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