Upper Hill Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. Farmhouse.

Upper Hill Farmhouse

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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Colchester
Constituency
Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 January 1982
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Upper Hill Farmhouse, Fountain Lane, Copford
OS grid reference
TL 938 222
Coordinates
51.86504, 0.81455
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Upper Hill Farmhouse is a 15th-century hallhouse with crosswings, located on Copford Fountain Lane. The building is timber framed and plastered, topped with a red plain tile roof. At the rear, there is a loan-to extension. The farmhouse has two storeys and features a three-window range with 19th-century casements. A central chimney stack made of 17th-century red brick is also present.

Local climate

Upper Hill 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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