Barford House is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 May 1952. A Victorian Country house. 4 related planning applications.
Barford House
- WRENN ID
- hollow-rubble-candle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 May 1952
- Type
- Country house
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Barford House, Roxton Road, Great Barford, MK44 3LN
- OS grid reference
- TL 137 533
- Coordinates
- 52.16642, -0.33833
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Barford House is a small country house dating from 1843, with substantial remodelling and an extension around 1856 by John Usher. The house is constructed of yellow brick with stone dressings, and has a hipped slate roof with wide, bracketed eaves. It is built on an irregular plan and is dominated by a four-storey square tower. The design is Italianate in style. The east elevation features a variety of sash windows, including a two-storey semi-octagonal bay with a roof finial. The main entrance on the ground floor of the tower has a four-panel door set within a vermiculated rusticated stone surround, featuring a carved camel's head as the keystone. The first floor of the tower has a pierced stone balcony displaying a coat of arms, with French windows in a round-headed opening. The second floor has paired windows with round heads and bases on each side, and the third floor each side features a Venetian window. The embattled top of the tower is a replacement from around 1910, substituting for a pitched roof and incorporating a decorative pinnacle. The house has a variety of brick stacks.
Local climate
Barford 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 98% 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 53% 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 0.4°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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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