Forty Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 August 1983. A Georgian Farmhouse.
Forty Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- noble-obsidian-snow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 August 1983
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- Forty Farmhouse, Great North Road, Wyboston, Chawston and Colesden
- OS grid reference
- TL 164 563
- Coordinates
- 52.19354, -0.29793
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Forty Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from around 1800, likely built over an earlier structure, and was reworked in the 19th century, with an additional block added to the road elevation later in the 19th century. The building is constructed of red brick, which probably encases a timber frame, and features an old clay tile roof. The front block is made of gault brick with a slate roof. The overall layout is a double pile plan with a two-span roof and it stands two storeys high.
On the ground floor of the rear block, there are two sashes with glazing bars beneath cambered heads, flanking a double door with a rectangular fanlight, also under a cambered head. The first floor has one dummy window, one two-light horizontal sash, and one sash with glazing bars. A rebuilt gault brick multiple ridge stack is present. The front block features three sashes with glazing bars on each floor.
Local climate
Forty 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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