Elms Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. Farmhouse. 4 related planning applications.
Elms Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- blind-garret-smoke
- 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
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Elms Farmhouse, Peartree Hill, Mount Bures, CO8 5BA
- OS grid reference
- TL 914 320
- Coordinates
- 51.95378, 0.78502
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Elms Farmhouse is a late 16th-century house located on Peartree Hill, Mount Bures. It is an example of a late Elizabethan house with two storeys. The house is constructed of Flemish-bonded brickwork and features a projecting string course at first-floor level. A gabled porch is centrally located, with modern sash windows on either side, and two similar windows on the first storey. The roof is gabled and ridged, covered with peg tiles.
Local climate
Elms Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 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 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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 — 3 transactions since 2017
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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