Greenlands is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 August 1983. House.
Greenlands
- WRENN ID
- guardian-balcony-vale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 August 1983
- Type
- House
- Address
- Greenlands, Birchfield Road, Great Barford
- OS grid reference
- TL 123 526
- Coordinates
- 52.16102, -0.3591
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Greenlands is an 18th-century house located on Birchfield Road in Great Barford. The building features a colour-washed, rough cast exterior and has an old clay tile roof. It is designed in an L-plan and consists of two storeys with a symmetrical facade. The central front door has six panels—two flush and four fielded—set within a moulded surround. This door is flanked by flush sash windows in moulded frames, which include 19th-century glazing bars. On the first floor, there are three similar sash windows. The house has red brick stacks, with one being external and the other integral, located at both gable ends. The northeast elevation includes a 19th-century rectangular bay window on the ground floor and two sash windows on the first floor.
Local climate
Greenlands 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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