Plummers Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. House.
Plummers Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- long-window-spindle
- 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
- Plummers Farmhouse, Plummers Road, Fordham
- OS grid reference
- TL 930 291
- Coordinates
- 51.92738, 0.80696
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Plummers Farmhouse is a house dating from around 1500 or earlier, constructed with a timber frame. It stands two storeys high and has three bays with exposed framing. The roof is ridged and gabled, covered with peg tiles, and features a red brick chimney stack near the centre of the ridge, as well as another chimney against the west end. There is a lean-to along the north elevation and an outshut at the west end of the first storey. The heavy frame does not have external wind bracing, and the roof includes side purlins. On the first storey, there are three leaded casement windows. The central front door is accompanied by a modernised tripartite window on the right side of the ground storey and a set of three casements on the left.
Local climate
Plummers 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 — 4 transactions since 1996
- No related consent applications matched
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