The Moat House is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1987. House.
The Moat House
- WRENN ID
- narrow-kitchen-auburn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Moat House, 1 High Street, Sharnbrook, MK44 1PG
- OS grid reference
- SP 998 594
- Coordinates
- 52.22428, -0.53955
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Moat House is a house with origins in the 18th century, which has been altered in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is constructed of limestone rubble and has Welsh slate roofs. The building is two storeys high and has an L-shaped plan. The entrance front faces southeast and features a traceried fanlight above the porch, which is supported by slim Doric columns. There are three sash windows on the first floor and two on the ground floor, flanking the central front door. At the northeast end, there is a 20th-century cross-wing extension. The southwest elevation includes two additional units behind the main wing, with vertical sash windows on the first floor and casement and side sliding sash windows on the ground floor, along with a bracketed door hood. At the rear, there are two parallel outbuildings, one made of limestone and the other of brick, both single storey and topped with old clay tile roofs.
Local climate
The Moat 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, more than 50% 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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