Smyther's Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. House.
Smyther's Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- fossil-rubble-saffron
- 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
- House
- Address
- Smyther's Farmhouse, Earls Colne Road, Great Tey
- OS grid reference
- TL 883 263
- Coordinates
- 51.90426, 0.73638
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Smyther's Farmhouse is a late 16th century house that has been adapted into a T-plan layout. The oldest part of the building runs east-west, while a crosswing at the east end is aligned north-south. The structure is timber framed and plastered, featuring three sets of four casement windows on both the ground and first floors. The crosswing has a jettied section at the south gable tie beam. A red brick chimney stack is located on the north wall, flanking the center. The roofs are ridged and gabled, covered with peg tiles. Although the house has undergone significant extensions and renovations, it retains some original features, including moulded timbers in the ground storey ceiling that can be dated to around 1560 to 1580, as well as some ovolo mullions from that period.
Local climate
Smyther's Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 660 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 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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