Morses Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Tendring local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 April 1987. House.

Morses Farmhouse

WRENN ID
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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
House
Address
Morses Farmhouse, Morses Lane, Brightlingsea
OS grid reference
TM 087 183
Coordinates
51.82472, 1.02819
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Morses Farmhouse is a house from the 17th century, possibly with earlier origins, that has seen later additions and alterations. It is timber framed and plastered, topped with a red plain tiled roof that has two levels and features red brick chimney stacks on both levels. The building has two storeys and a cellar, with a four-window range of 20th-century vertically sliding sashes that include glazing bars. The entrance is marked by a six-panelled door beneath a moulded flat canopy supported by brackets.

Inside, notable features include jowled storey posts and a side purlin roof that is pegged at the ridge, with cambered collars in the left range and a cambered tie beam. The bridging joists are stop-chamfered, and there is an inglenook fireplace that is now covered in the left range. The stairs are located by the chimney, and there are vertically boarded doors with ironmongery, along with some re-used timber. A bedroom features a 18th-century cast iron basket grate and a raised lug fire surround. An arched brace connects from a storey post to the brick chimney.

Local climate

Morses 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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