Rushey Ford House is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1987. Farmhouse.
Rushey Ford House
- WRENN ID
- salt-dormer-khaki
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Rushey Ford House, West End Road, Kempston Rural
- OS grid reference
- TL 000 484
- Coordinates
- 52.12554, -0.54041
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rushey Ford House is a late 16th century or early 17th century farmhouse featuring a single remaining bay and a jettied crosswing. The southeast bay is a later addition or rebuild. A further gabled wing was added to the northwest end in the late 18th century or early 19th century. The building is timber-framed, with a red brick northwest wing. In the late 19th century, the entire structure was pebbledashed and colourwashed. It has an old clay tiled roof and stands two storeys tall. The earlier bay of the main house includes a first-floor gabled dormer, while the crosswing and southeast bay have three-light leaded casements. The ground floor features a 20th-century flat-roofed bay with four 20th-century leaded casements. The later northwest gabled wing has a single sash window with glazing bars on each storey.
Local climate
Rushey Ford House 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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