The Timbers is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 July 1964. A C17 House.
The Timbers
- WRENN ID
- brooding-tower-lichen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 July 1964
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Timbers, 1, Barford Road, Willington
- OS grid reference
- TL 115 497
- Coordinates
- 52.1344, -0.37215
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Timbers is a house dating from the 17th century, constructed with a timber frame and red brick infill, topped with an old clay tile roof. It features a three-room plan and stands two storeys high, with a two-storeyed porch that has either been rebuilt or added in the 20th century at the front. The front elevation includes three hipped dormers with windows above and below the wall plate, and the ground floor has windows in similar positions. All windows are 20th-century casements with diamond leading. The porch wing aligns with a red brick double ridge stack and has a door on the east side, along with a brick inscribed "T.C. 1692" set into the front. The east elevation has a rebuilt gable with pebbledash render and mock timber framing, and there is a 20th-century lean-to extension on the right-hand side. The rear elevation features a 20th-century projecting two-storeyed double-gabled block, which also has mock timber framing and colourwashed plaster infill.
Local climate
The Timbers 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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