Suttons Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.

Suttons Farmhouse

WRENN ID
lapsed-gallery-khaki
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
Suttons Farmhouse, Penlan Hall Lane, Fordham, CO6 3LR
OS grid reference
TL 919 288
Coordinates
51.92503, 0.79043
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Suttons Farmhouse is a 17th-century, two-storey house with a square plan. It features timber framing and consists of two parallel ranges, each topped with ridged and hipped roofs covered in peg tiles. The elevations are pebble-dashed, and there are four red brick chimney stacks, two at each end of the building. A 19th-century porch, which is slate clad, is present at the front, along with three pairs of two-pane sash windows on the first storey in exposed boxes, and one sash window on each side of the front door.

Local climate

Suttons 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 2017
  • 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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