Viaduct Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 April 1965. House. 1 related planning application.
Viaduct Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- final-zinc-bittern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Harwich and North Essex MP: Sir Bernard Jenkin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 April 1965
- Type
- House
- Address
- Viaduct Farmhouse, the Street, Chappel, CO6 2DD
- OS grid reference
- TL 893 283
- Coordinates
- 51.92165, 0.75242
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Viaduct Farmhouse is a 16th-century house with a 19th-century front elevation made of gault bricks. It has two storeys and features a five-window range. The building is topped with a dentilled parapet and has pilasters at each end, along with a projecting central bay and a flat-topped brick porch. Above the porch is a Gothic-style central window, flanked by two pairs of 8-pane sash windows with stucco window heads on either side. The central chimney has three pierced round-ended slits between the flues. The roof is ridged and hipped, covered with peg tiles, and the overall plan is complex. Inside, the first-floor joists are deeply carved and date from just after 1510.
Local climate
Viaduct Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 650 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 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2006
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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