Kemps Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. House. 3 related planning applications.
Kemps Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- lunar-iron-sedge
- 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
- House
- Address
- Kemps Farmhouse, Mersea Road, Peldon, CO5 7QG
- OS grid reference
- TL 999 161
- Coordinates
- 51.80825, 0.899
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Kemps Farmhouse is a 17th-century house, originally timber-framed and plastered with a red plain tile roof. It features a gabled crosswing at the east end which is undercut. The house has been extensively altered in the 20th century. The front has a three-by-one window arrangement with modern casements. An original 17th-century central chimney stack remains.
Local climate
Kemps 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2021
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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