Lifkins Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. Farmhouse.
Lifkins Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- grey-nave-crag
- 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
- Lifkins Farmhouse, Long Road East, Dedham
- OS grid reference
- TM 067 314
- Coordinates
- 51.94273, 1.00632
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lifkins Farmhouse is a 17th century farmhouse that has undergone later alterations. It features three bays and two storeys, with a plastered exterior. The roof is ridged and gabled, covered with peg tiles, and has a central red brick chimney. The ground storey includes a central door set in a pedimented case, with a six-panelled leaf and small paned hornless sashes on either side. The first storey has three Gothic sashes, with the central one being round-headed and featuring Y-tracery, while the left and right sashes are pointed sash-hung lights. Additionally, there are a pair of casements in each attic gable. To the left, there are two single-storeyed, plastered and peg-tiled additions that form an L-plan.
Local climate
Lifkins Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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