Priory Farmhouse and Adjoining Barn is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 May 1985. House, barn. 2 related planning applications.
Priory Farmhouse and Adjoining Barn
- WRENN ID
- swift-pedestal-cream
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 May 1985
- Type
- House, barn
- Address
- Priory Farmhouse and Adjoining Barn, MK43 8BE
- OS grid reference
- SP 956 522
- Coordinates
- 52.16025, -0.60383
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Priory Farmhouse and the adjoining barn are mid-19th century structures built from coursed limestone rubble with an old clay tile roof. The farmhouse is two storeys tall, while the barn is slightly lower. The house features three ridge chimney stacks with moulded red brick flues that are set at right angles to the base. The gable ends of the house have decorated bargeboards, three large ornamental timber brackets, and corner buttresses. The south elevation of both the house and barn is supported by seven stone buttresses. The front of the house has two small gables with bargeboards. On the first floor, there are five three-light casement windows with glazing bars, while the ground floor has five casement windows as well, which are two-light with glazing bars and high-level transoms. The steeply-pitched gable has a bracketed door hood.
Local climate
Priory Farmhouse and Adjoining Barn 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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