Archendines Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. Farmhouse.
Archendines Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- hushed-hearth-rush
- 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
- Archendines Farmhouse, Chappel Road, Fordham
- OS grid reference
- TL 923 291
- Coordinates
- 51.92771, 0.79684
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Archendines Farmhouse is a 18th century building with a front elevation that reflects this period, while it forms a parallel range at the rear that is older. The farmhouse has a square plan and features two ridged and gabled roofs covered with peg tiles, with the front range having a parapet. The elevations are rendered and painted, showcasing a five-window range of double floor small paned sashes with exposed boxes. The central window on the first floor has a semi-circular head. On the ground floor, there are two matching sashes on either side of the central front door, which consists of six fielded panels set in a wide wooden case topped with a flat leaded hood. There are modern single-storey extensions on both the left and right sides. The rear range is notable for its heavy side purlin roof.
Local climate
Archendines 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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