Abbey Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 July 1964. A 17th century Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Abbey Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- solemn-hammer-merlin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 July 1964
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Abbey Farmhouse, Ravensden Road, Renhold, MK41 0JZ
- OS grid reference
- TL 077 529
- Coordinates
- 52.16395, -0.42545
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Abbey Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the 17th and 18th centuries. It is timber framed with colour washed brick infill and has a 20th-century tiled roof. The building is designed in an H-plan and has two storeys, with a northern cross-wing that features lighter studding, possibly indicating a slightly later construction date. The ground floor has a 1:3:2 arrangement of casement windows, with the right-hand wing having leaded lights. The first floor has a 1:2:1 arrangement of casements, with the right-hand one also being leaded. A substantial red brick chimney stack is located on the central block. The other elevations display a similar mix of plain and leaded casements. At the rear of the southern cross-wing, there is a range of 18th-century one-storey outbuildings, also timber framed and topped with a 20th-century tiled roof. Additionally, there is a 20th-century extension at the rear of the northern wing.
Local climate
Abbey Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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 2010
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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