Top Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1987. House. 2 related planning applications.
Top Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- rooted-mullion-holly
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Top Farmhouse, West End Road, Kempston Rural, MK43 8RU
- OS grid reference
- SP 999 487
- Coordinates
- 52.12759, -0.54062
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Top Farmhouse is an 18th-century house with an exterior of colourwashed roughcast and a hipped old clay tile roof. The building features two projecting rear wings, each with a double-pitched hipped roof. It stands two storeys tall, with three sash windows featuring glazing bars and architrave surrounds on the first floor, and two similar windows on the ground floor. The entrance is highlighted by a cut bracketed doorhood.
Local climate
Top 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 95% 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, more than 54% 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
- No sale records on file
- 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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