Gods House Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Tendring local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 November 1987. Farmhouse.
Gods House Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- over-cloister-tarn
- 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
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Gods House Farmhouse, Harts Lane, Ardleigh
- OS grid reference
- TM 039 306
- Coordinates
- 51.93652, 0.96553
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gods House Farmhouse is a 17th-century house that features a timber frame and rough render. It has a red plain tiled roof with barge boards on the return gables and a central chimney stack. The building is two storeys high and has a two-window range of two-light small paned casements. The entrance includes a central plank and muntin door with a moulded surround and a label above it. At the rear, there is an outshot. The house consists of two bays and a chimney bay, with an original stack that has 20th-century fire surrounds. Inside, there is an inserted ceiling with stop-chamfered bridging joists, square section ceiling beams, and jowled storey posts. It is believed to have been the original Meeting House of the Methodists and was occupied in 1796 by Thomas Went, a farmer, as noted in F.H. Erith's "Ardleigh in 1796" published in 1978.
Local climate
Gods House 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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