Manor 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.
Manor Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- lost-gateway-jackdaw
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 August 1983
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Manor Farmhouse, Ravensden, MK44 2RT
- OS grid reference
- TL 055 553
- Coordinates
- 52.18671, -0.4581
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Manor Farmhouse is an early and late 17th-century timber-framed farmhouse situated in Ravensden. The exterior is colour-washed rough cast, with weatherboarding to the south gable end, and the roof is tiled. The house is in a T-plan, comprising a storeyed original wing and a two-storey-and-attic wing to the south. The south elevation of the earlier wing has a two-light horizontal sash window with glazing bars on each floor. The later wing features a sash window with glazing bars to the ground and first floors, along with a casement window to the attic. A red brick double ridge stack is present on the south wing, and an external gable end stack is located to the west of the earlier block. A one-storey brick extension is attached to the north, and a lean-to brick addition is on the west gable end of the original block. Inside, the house retains a 17th-century staircase with original balusters.
Local climate
Manor 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, more than 50% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2009
- 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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