Castle Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1987. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Castle Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- little-belfry-oak
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Castle Farmhouse, High Street, Odell, MK43 7BB
- OS grid reference
- SP 969 580
- Coordinates
- 52.21179, -0.5831
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Castle Farmhouse is a late 17th century farmhouse built of coursed limestone rubble, featuring a modern tiled roof with stone coped gable ends. The building has a T-plan layout and stands two storeys tall with attics. The elevation facing the street has four modern windows under old timber lintels on the left side, with two windows on each floor. The west gable end includes sash windows, and there is a dormer in the rear wing. Attached to the east is a single-storey pantiled stone outhouse that has similar windows.
Local climate
Castle 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 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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 — 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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