Gulls Farmhouse is a Grade II* listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.
Gulls Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- far-brick-sage
- 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
- Gulls Farmhouse, Buckleys Lane, Great Tey, CO6 1SB
- OS grid reference
- TL 871 247
- Coordinates
- 51.88973, 0.71823
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gulls Farmhouse is a 15th-century house of two storeys, originally timber-framed and now clad in weatherboards. The roof is ridged and gabled, covered in pegtiled, with an early hexagonal chimney shaft of red brick in the centre of the front slope and red brick chimney stacks against each end wall, dating from the 18th century. The ground floor has three modern casement windows, and the first floor has four. A modern front door is located towards the west end.
Inside, there is a heavy oaken frame and an encapsulated crown-post roof, heavily coated in soot. Notable features include prominent Tudor arch braces, door heads, boldly chamfered common-joists, and diamond mullioned window spaces. The house was formerly an open hall, with a first floor inserted later. Evidence in the roof suggests the presence of two cross-wings, indicating a former H-plan configuration and suggesting the house belonged to a wealthy yeoman family. The property has been known by various names throughout its history, appearing in deeds as Broadgores, Angevins, and Shatbolts.
Local climate
Gulls Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 660 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 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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 2019
- 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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