Knapwell Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1987. House. 4 related planning applications.
Knapwell Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- sheer-garret-wind
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Knapwell Farmhouse, Vicarage Lane, Podington, NN29 7HR
- OS grid reference
- SP 942 624
- Coordinates
- 52.25171, -0.62007
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Knapwell Farmhouse is a house dating from the late 17th century or 18th century. It is built of coursed limestone rubble and features a concrete pantile roof with stone coping at the gable ends. The building has an L-plan layout and consists of two storeys and attics. The south elevation includes two hipped dormers and two three-light casement windows with glazing bars on the first floor. The ground floor has one similar three-light casement window and one single light window from the 20th century. There is a projecting wing at the west end that has a 20th-century porch located in the angle between the wings.
Local climate
Knapwell Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings