Fountain Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Tendring local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 November 1987. House. 1 related planning application.
Fountain Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-fireplace-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tendring
- Constituency
- Harwich and North Essex MP: Sir Bernard Jenkin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 November 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Fountain Farmhouse, Wick Road, Ardleigh, CO7 7RG
- OS grid reference
- TM 040 295
- Coordinates
- 51.92665, 0.96636
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fountain Farmhouse is a house with a 17th century rear wing and an early 19th century front range. It is constructed of red brick and features red plain tiled roofs. The building has red brick chimney stacks on both the right and left sides, and barge boards adorn the return gables. The house is two storeys high and has a three-window range of tripartite paned vertically sliding sash windows, which have gauged brick arches, except for a central round-headed window on the first floor. The central entrance consists of a six-panel door with reveal panels, a moulded surround, a frieze, and a flat canopy supported by brackets. Some 17th century timber framing is visible in the rear range.
Local climate
Fountain 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- 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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