Middle Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1987. House. 1 related planning application.
Middle Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-zinc-coral
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Middle Farmhouse, High Street, Oakley, MK43 7RG
- OS grid reference
- TL 009 538
- Coordinates
- 52.17358, -0.52464
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Middle Farmhouse is a house dating from the 17th century or early 18th century, with a new main range added to the south end, likely in the early 19th century. The entire building is constructed of coursed limestone rubble and features an old clay tile roof. The original main wing, which is two storeys high, is oriented gable end to the road. On the west elevation, there is a small box dormer and a ground floor two-light casement window. To the left, there is a projecting gabled wing that is one storey with attics, which has an attic doorway in the gable end, suggesting it was originally used for storage. The windows are irregularly spaced 20th-century casements set under heavy timber lintels. There is a hipped roof porch located in the angle between the wings. The 19th-century south wing is two storeys with attics, featuring three gabled dormers on the south elevation. The first floor has three casement windows with glazing bars, with the two outer ones being two-light. The ground floor includes two three-light casements and a central doorway. All openings are adorned with ashlar heads that have keystones.
Local climate
Middle 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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