Church End House is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 August 1983. Farmhouse. 5 related planning applications.
Church End House
- WRENN ID
- little-iron-swallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 August 1983
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Church End House, High Street, Wilden
- OS grid reference
- TL 092 553
- Coordinates
- 52.18556, -0.40353
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Church End House is a farmhouse dating from the 17th century. It features a colour washed rough cast exterior over a timber frame and has an old clay tile roof. The building is L-shaped, with 20th-century additions to the north and east. It has two storeys.
On the east elevation, there is a variety of casement windows, most of which have glazing bars, with some being from the 20th century. The west elevation includes a projecting left-hand gable that has a four-light casement window and a 20th-century porch on the ground floor, along with a two-light casement window on the first floor and a lean-to addition on the south elevation. The main wing features two two-light casements on the ground floor, with the left-hand one replacing a door, and two two-light horizontal sash windows on the first floor, all with glazing bars.
To the left of these windows, as well as on the south elevation of the projecting wing, are substantial external chimney stacks made of colour washed brick. The chimney stack on the main wing has a pair of diagonally-set shafts, and there is also an external stack on the south gable end of the main wing.
Local climate
Church End 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 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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