Top Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 August 1983. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Top Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- lunar-ashlar-alder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 August 1983
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Top Farmhouse, Wilden Shrubbery, MK44 2PH
- OS grid reference
- TL 082 559
- Coordinates
- 52.19134, -0.41763
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an early 17th-century farmhouse, with a later addition dating to the 1930s. The original core is a substantial timber-frame structure, now covered with a colour-washed rough cast render. It has an old clay tile roof. The original block follows a two-room plan and has attics. The south elevation has a small, central projecting gabled wing aligned with a rendered double ridge stack. This wing contains a glazed door on the ground floor and a two-light casement window in the attic. To the left is a 19th-century canted bay window on the ground floor, and a 20th-century gabled dormer with a casement window. To the right is a three-light casement window. A lean-to addition extends from the rear.
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 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2020
- 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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