Rye Farmhouse is a Grade II* listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. A Medieval Farmhouse.
Rye Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- turning-iron-claret
- 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
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Rye Farmhouse, Long Road East, Dedham
- OS grid reference
- TM 047 315
- Coordinates
- 51.94447, 0.97737
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rye Farmhouse is a house dating from around 1400, constructed with a timber frame that is partly exposed and plastered, forming an L-shape. The building has two storeys and features ridged, gabled roofs covered with peg tiles, along with one gabled dormer on the stem range. The central porch on the front is gabled and also covered with peg tiles, featuring the original front door set beneath a flat, four-centred oak arch. There are modern leaded casements on either side of the porch and a set of three casements on the first storey of the crosswing. The house has two modern red brick chimneys. Inside, the stem or hall-range was laterally divided around 1510, while the wing-floor retains unrefined central tenons, indicating its construction around 1400. The top-plates are halved and have bridled scarf joints.
Local climate
Rye 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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