Goldacre Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Tendring local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 April 1987. House. 1 related planning application.

Goldacre Farmhouse

WRENN ID
dim-fireplace-claret
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
Goldacre Farmhouse, Station Road, Thorrington, CO7 8HZ
OS grid reference
TM 089 209
Coordinates
51.84773, 1.0328
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Goldacre Farmhouse is a house that dates from the 16th century or earlier, with later alterations. It is constructed from timber framing and has a plastered exterior, topped with a red plain tiled roof. The building features off-centre left red brick diagonal chimney shafts and stands two storeys high with attics. There is a single-storey extension at the rear right, which includes a chimney stack. The house has two first-floor windows and three ground-floor windows, all of which are vertically sliding sashes with glazing bars. The entrance consists of off-centre left boarded doors with a simple surround. Inside, there are vertically boarded doors with ironmongery and a staircase located by the chimney stack.

Local climate

Goldacre 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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