Malting Farmhouse and No. 275 Bedford Road is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 July 1964. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Malting Farmhouse and No. 275 Bedford Road
- WRENN ID
- deep-pier-azure
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 July 1964
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Malting Farmhouse and No. 275 Bedford Road, Cardington, MK44 3SS
- OS grid reference
- TL 085 478
- Coordinates
- 52.11831, -0.41548
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Malting Farmhouse and No. 275 Bedford Road is a farmhouse built in 1771 for Samuel Whitbread, possibly incorporating an earlier building. The structure is made of red brick, with No. 275 featuring a pebbledash exterior. It has an old clay tile roof that is hipped at the front block. The main house is L-shaped with projecting blocks at the north and east corners, and it has two storeys and attics. No. 275, which adjoins to the southwest, also has an L-plan and forms a small courtyard between the two blocks.
The front of the farmhouse is not quite symmetrical due to the differing widths of the two projecting side bays. There are brick bands at the first floor and cornice level, topped with a stone-coped parapet. Although the original plans indicate a central door, it has been moved to the left-hand bay. The current entrance features a part-glazed door with geometric glazing bars in a moulded surround, topped by a pair of plaques with the Whitbread initials and a flat hood with a dentil cornice supported by carved consoles. The windows are arranged in a 1:3:1 pattern, all with geometric glazing bars and set under flat arches. There are dummy windows at the centre of the first floor and at the far right on both the ground and first floors. The house has two box dormers with casements that also have glazing bars.
On the northwest elevation, there is a large semicircular two-storey bay on the left-hand side, with all windows matching those on the front. The rear elevation of No. 275 features mostly two and three-light horizontal sash windows with glazing bars, along with plank doors.
Local climate
Malting Farmhouse and No. 275 Bedford Road 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 96% 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 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% 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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