Octagon Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1984. House. 4 related planning applications.
Octagon Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- ghost-spindle-river
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 May 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Octagon Farmhouse, Bedford Road, Cople
- OS grid reference
- TL 095 495
- Coordinates
- 52.13344, -0.40154
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Octagon Farmhouse is a house built in the early 19th century for the Duke of Bedford. It resembles a design from around 1800 by R. Salmon for Francis, the 5th Duke of Bedford, for a house in a different parish. The farmhouse appears to have undergone later alterations. It is constructed of red brick and features a slate roof that is hipped on the main block and gabled on the projecting blocks. The main block has an octagonal plan and consists of two storeys and an attic. There is a two-storey block that projects from the west elevation and a one-storey block with attics that projects from the north elevation. The windows are mostly casements with three lights and glazing bars, set under cambered heads. The south and east elevations are blank. The original six-panel front door is located on the northeast elevation, accessed by a flight of steps and covered by a flat-roofed wooden porch. There are two red brick stacks at the center of the octagonal block, flanking a double-sided roof light.
Local climate
Octagon 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 2006
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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