Houds Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. House.
Houds Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- proud-brick-holly
- 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
- Houds Farmhouse, Plummers Road, Fordham
- OS grid reference
- TL 930 297
- Coordinates
- 51.9328, 0.80667
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Houds Farmhouse is a 17th century or earlier house, designed in an L-plan and constructed with a timber frame. It has two storeys and features a hipped ridged roof that is pegtiled, along with a red brick chimney stack located centrally on the ridge. The south elevation is rendered and includes sets of three modern casement windows on either side of a modern porch, with two matching windows on the first storey.
Local climate
Houds 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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