Frating Abbey Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Tendring local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 April 1987. House.
Frating Abbey Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- open-garret-candle
- 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
- Frating Abbey Farmhouse, Frating Abbey Farm Road, Thorrington
- OS grid reference
- TM 101 207
- Coordinates
- 51.84578, 1.04883
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Frating Abbey Farmhouse is a house dating from the 18th to 19th century. It is constructed of gault brick and features a hipped grey slate roof. The building has gault brick chimney stacks on both the right and left, which are adorned with pilasters and coping. It includes a cornice and central bands, as well as end and two central pilasters, giving it a square plan. The façade has a three-window range of small paned vertically sliding sashes with gauged brick arches above them. There is a recessed central porch supported by Ionic columns, which contains half-glazed double doors flanked by sidelights. To the left of the main house is a red brick range with a hipped roof, featuring three first-floor and two ground-floor small paned vertically sliding sash windows.
Local climate
Frating Abbey 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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