Gatehouse Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Tendring local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 November 1987. House. 2 related planning applications.
Gatehouse Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- woven-newel-auburn
- 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
- Gatehouse Farmhouse, Crown Lane, Ardleigh, CO7 7QZ
- OS grid reference
- TM 023 291
- Coordinates
- 51.92408, 0.94144
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gatehouse Farmhouse is a house dating from the 15th century or earlier, with later alterations and additions. It is timber framed and plastered, featuring red plain tiled roofs. The building has a hipped jettied crosswing to the left, with a lean-to on the left return and a hip on the right of the right range. Curved brackets support the jetty, and there is a red brick chimney stack on the main range. The house is two storeys high, with a 1:2 arrangement on the first floor and a 1:1:2 arrangement on the ground floor. The windows are 19th-century style casements with two and three lights, and there are roundels on the ground and first floors to the right of the doorway. The entrance features a recessed six-panel door set in a chamfered round-headed doorway. It is said to have a crown post roof construction. John Jocelyne, a yeoman, lived here in 1796, as noted in F.H. Erith's "Ardleigh in 1796" published in 1978.
Local climate
Gatehouse Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 670 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 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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- 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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