Chawston Manor House is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 July 1964. House. 2 related planning applications.

Chawston Manor House

WRENN ID
drifting-quartz-vermeil
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bedford
Constituency
North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
13 July 1964
Type
House
Address
Chawston Manor House, Wyboston, Chawston and Colesden, MK44 3BS
OS grid reference
TL 151 561
Coordinates
52.1915, -0.31684
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Chawston Manor House is a 17th-century house featuring colour washed plaster over a timber frame, with some exposed timbering on the south side. It has an old clay tile roof and is designed in an L-plan over two storeys.

On the south elevation, the left-hand wing includes one 2-light and one 5-light casement window on the ground floor, and two 2-light horizontal sash windows on the first floor, all of which have glazing bars. The right-hand gable features a 19th-century canted bay window on the ground floor and a jettied first floor with a 3-light casement window, also with glazing bars.

The east elevation showcases three ground floor French windows with glazing bars and four first floor 2-light sash windows with glazing bars. There is a six-fielded panel door set in a moulded surround, topped with a flat hood supported by consoles. A gault brick double stack chimney is located on the north gable end. The house has one-storey additions to the west and north and is situated on a moated site.

Local climate

Chawston Manor 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2007
  • Related listed building consents — 2 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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