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

Knights Farmhouse

WRENN ID
fallow-pedestal-grain
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
Knights Farmhouse, London Road, Great Horkesley
OS grid reference
TL 966 302
Coordinates
51.93627, 0.85859
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Knights Farmhouse is a 17th-century cottage that is single storey with attics. It is timber framed and features two casement windows along with an entrance door on the west front. The cottage has a thatched gabled roof and a central red brick chimney.

Local climate

Knights Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 670 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 51% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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