Great Marsh Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Tendring local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 April 1987. Farmhouse. 4 related planning applications.

Great Marsh Farmhouse

WRENN ID
moated-rafter-acorn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Tendring
Constituency
Harwich and North Essex MP: Sir Bernard Jenkin (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 April 1987
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Great Marsh Farmhouse, Marsh Farm Lane, Thorrington, CO7 8HD
OS grid reference
TM 105 186
Coordinates
51.82663, 1.05445
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Great Marsh Farmhouse is a house with origins dating back to the 15th or 16th century, with later alterations, including changes from the 18th century. It is timber framed and plastered, topped with a hipped red plain tiled roof that includes a crosswing on the right side. The house features off-centre red brick chimney stacks on both the left and right sides. It has two storeys and a three-window range of vertically sliding sashes with glazing bars, while the ground floor windows have glazed margins. There is a modern gabled porch on the right side, which contains the original six-panelled door. To the left, there is a lean-to extension at the rear. Inside, notable features include an inglenook fireplace with a moulded mantel beam, vertically boarded and panelled doors with ironmongery, chamfered bridging joists, and a crosswing with three bays that has arched braces to the tie beams. The left range has a large cambered tie beam that was originally arched braced.

Local climate

Great Marsh Farmhouse receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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
  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 1997
  • Related listed building consents — 4 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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