Harveys Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 June 1952. A C15 House. 3 related planning applications.
Harveys Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- drifting-shingle-blackthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Harwich and North Essex MP: Sir Bernard Jenkin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 June 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- Harveys Farmhouse, Wigborough Road, Peldon, CO5 7RA
- OS grid reference
- TL 984 164
- Coordinates
- 51.81148, 0.87684
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Harveys Farmhouse is a 15th-century hall house featuring gabled crosswings. The building is timber framed and plastered, topped with a red plain tile roof that is partly gambrelled. The crosswings, which were originally jettied, have been underbuilt. The house has a modern range of three windows with casements and a modern porch. The entrance doorway is adorned with an early 19th-century reeded surround and patera. Some of the framing is exposed on the south end. The north wing dates back to the 15th century and includes a mid-16th-century inserted chimney stack and first floor in the hall. There are also remains of a 16th-century newel stair. The south wing is from the early 17th century and features an original framed side purlin roof.
Local climate
Harveys Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 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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- 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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