Croot's Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1984. Farmhouse. 6 related planning applications.

Croot's Farmhouse

WRENN ID
sombre-column-rain
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bedford
Constituency
North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 May 1984
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Croot's Farmhouse, Station Road, Willington, MK44 3QH
OS grid reference
TL 113 498
Coordinates
52.13606, -0.37447
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Croot's Farmhouse is a house dating from the 17th century, with 19th-century windows. It is timber framed and has a colourwashed roughcast render exterior. The roof is made of clay tiles and is hipped to the north. The building has an L-plan layout, with the main hall being two storeys tall and the cross-wing also having two storeys and attics.

On the east elevation, the gable of the cross-wing features a canted bay with sash windows that have glazing bars on the ground floor, a sash window with glazing bars on the first floor, and a 20th-century casement window with glazing bars in the attic. The ground floor of the main block has a three-light casement and a single-light casement, both with glazing bars, along with one 20th-century casement and one sash window with glazing bars on the first floor. There is a 20th-century gabled porch at the junction with the cross-wing. The cross-wing has a rebuilt multiple ridge stack. Additionally, there is a single-storey 19th-century outhouse addition in red brick that projects forward from the north end.

Local climate

Croot's 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 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2022
  • Related listed building consents — 6 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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