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

Abrams Farmhouse

WRENN ID
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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
Abrams Farmhouse, Chappel Road, Mount Bures
OS grid reference
TL 902 313
Coordinates
51.94776, 0.76747
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Abrams Farmhouse is a 16th-century farmhouse that has been modernized on the outside. It features a long range that is timber framed and rendered. The central entrance has a modern front door flanked by sets of three transomed casement windows on each side. Above the eaves, there are two gabled dormers. The roof is ridged with gables, covered in concrete tiles, and has a central red brick chimney stack. A wing extends to the rear of the building. Inside, there are jowled storey-posts and flat oak joists with haunched tenons. Oak weatherboards are present beneath the rendering.

Local climate

Abrams 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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