Doggets Hammer Farm 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.
Doggets Hammer Farm
- WRENN ID
- vacant-lime-rye
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 January 1982
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Doggets Hammer Farm, Doggets Lane, Marks Tey, CO6 1EW
- OS grid reference
- TL 910 228
- Coordinates
- 51.87116, 0.77435
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Doggets Hammer Farm is a 16th-century cross-wing with later additions. The building is timber-framed and jettied at the north and south for three bays, standing two storeys high with a ridged, gabled roof covered in peg tiles. The roof structure incorporates crown posts, scarfs halved and bridled. The first storey is weatherboarded, while the ground storey is plastered. A red brick chimney stack is located on the rear slope. The building has leaded casement windows.
Local climate
Doggets Hammer Farm 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2010
- 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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