Church Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 August 1983. Farmhouse. 8 related planning applications.
Church Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- tired-steeple-owl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 August 1983
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Church Farmhouse, High Street, Roxton, MK44 3EB
- OS grid reference
- TL 152 544
- Coordinates
- 52.17663, -0.31534
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Church Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from around 1600, which was refaced in the 19th century. It has a timber frame with colour washed plaster infill on the south side, colour washed rough cast on the east side, and 19th century gault brick facing on the north and west sides. The roof is made of old clay tiles and the building has an L-plan shape with lean-to additions at the rear. It stands two storeys high with attics.
The front elevation features two sash windows with glazing bars on the ground floor and three on the first floor. There is an off-centre doorway with a moulded surround and a 20th-century door, flanked by fixed lights that also have glazing bars. The ground floor windows are topped with painted rendered flat arches that include keystones. The building has one double ridge stack that serves a back-to-back hearth and one gable end stack on the north side.
Inside, a first-floor bedroom retains a decorative plasterwork panel above a blocked fireplace, which displays the royal arms of James I, flanked by caryatids and portrait heads.
Local climate
Church 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 8 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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