West House Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 December 1971. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
West House Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- cold-bracket-hawthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Colchester MP: Pam Cox (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 December 1971
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- West House Farmhouse, Baker's Lane, CO3 4AU
- OS grid reference
- TL 972 260
- Coordinates
- 51.89824, 0.86582
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
West House Farmhouse is an 18th-century building with later alterations and additions, particularly to the west side. It is a two-storey and attic structure with a cross wing to the north. The main block’s east front features two gabled dormers and a three-window arrangement of double-hung sash windows with glazing bars. A two-gabled dormer addition exists to the south, along with a further smaller addition to the south. The building is timber-framed and plastered, with tiled roofs.
Local climate
West House 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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