Pound Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 August 1983. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.

Pound Farmhouse

WRENN ID
gilded-iron-curlew
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bedford
Constituency
North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 August 1983
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Pound Farmhouse, 53-55, High Street, Great Barford, MK44 3JJ
OS grid reference
TL 132 520
Coordinates
52.15497, -0.3467
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Pound Farmhouse is a 17th-century farmhouse located on High Street in Great Barford. The building features a colour-washed rough cast exterior over a timber frame and has a thatched roof. It originally has a two-room plan and is one storey with attics. In 1978/9, it was extended to the north to create an L-shaped layout. The farmhouse has 20th-century casement windows and a front door that aligns with a red brick ridge stack, which serves a back-to-back hearth. There are three gabled dormers, including one from the 20th century, and the left-hand end of the roof is hipped.

Local climate

Pound 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 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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