Gatehouse Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. Farmhouse. 5 related planning applications.
Gatehouse Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- buried-pedestal-quill
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 January 1982
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Gatehouse Farmhouse, School Hill, Birch
- OS grid reference
- TL 943 197
- Coordinates
- 51.8428, 0.81988
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gatehouse Farmhouse is a 15th-century hall house with cross wings, significantly altered in the 16th century. The structure is timber-framed and plastered, with a red plain tile roof. It is two storeys high, featuring two jettied and gabled cross wings. The front has a four-window range of double-hung sash windows with glazing bars. A 16th-century chimney stack is visible. A 19th-century gabled porch with decorative bargeboards has been added.
Local climate
Gatehouse 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 greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 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 — 2 transactions since 2010
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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