Chestnuts Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 August 1983. Farmhouse.
Chestnuts Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- cold-casement-crow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 August 1983
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Chestnuts Farmhouse, Staploe
- OS grid reference
- TL 133 588
- Coordinates
- 52.21577, -0.34199
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Chestnuts Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the 16th and 17th centuries, with some alterations made in the 20th century. The exterior features colour washed rough cast over significant timber framing and is topped with a clay tile roof. The building has a four-bay plan, consisting of one storey and attics, with central timbering indicating that it originally had an open hall. The windows are 20th-century casements, and there are box dormers along with a gabled porch on the south elevation. Notable architectural features include a substantial three-stage external stack on the east gable end, which has coursed limestone rubble at the lower stage and red brick above, as well as a red brick external stack on the west gable end.
Local climate
Chestnuts 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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