Queen's College Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1987. A C17 House.
Queen's College Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- proud-marble-river
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Queen's College Farmhouse, 46, High Street, Oakley
- OS grid reference
- TL 008 537
- Coordinates
- 52.17275, -0.52668
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Queen's College Farmhouse is a 17th-century house located on Oakley High Street. It is constructed from coursed limestone rubble and features an old clay tile roof. The building has a T-plan layout with a rear one-storey wing. The main wing is two storeys high, with four casement windows on the first floor and three casement windows on the ground floor. There is a doorway located off centre to the right, and all ground floor openings are topped with heavy timber lintels.
Local climate
Queen's College 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 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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