Fen Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Tendring local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 February 1950. House. 2 related planning applications.
Fen Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- blind-parapet-gorse
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tendring
- Constituency
- Harwich and North Essex MP: Sir Bernard Jenkin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 February 1950
- Type
- House
- Address
- Fen Farmhouse, Colchester Road, Elmstead, CO7 7ER
- OS grid reference
- TM 054 241
- Coordinates
- 51.87834, 0.98413
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fen Farmhouse is a house that is said to date back to the 15th century, with later additions and alterations. It is timber framed and plastered, topped with red plain tiled roofs. The structure is a hall house with crosswings, featuring two external red brick chimney stacks on the left return of the north wing and a stack on the ridge of the higher level south range. The left crosswing jetties at first floor level, as do the central and right gables. The house has two storeys and attics, with three first floor windows, two ground floor windows, and one window in the right gable. The windows include cross transomed three-light leaded casements with pightle hinges. There is a plastered gabled porch situated between the two ground floor windows, a blocked round-headed doorway with lugs, and a four-panelled two-light door. The interior is said to contain original moulded beams and some roof construction.
Local climate
Fen 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 — 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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