The Old Wheatsheaf is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1987. A Georgian House.
The Old Wheatsheaf
- WRENN ID
- sharp-footing-sepia
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1987
- Type
- House
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- The Old Wheatsheaf, Hinwick, Wellingborough, Podington, NN29 7JB
- OS grid reference
- SP 935 615
- Coordinates
- 52.24378, -0.63142
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Wheatsheaf is a house located in Hinwick Village, with a datestone on the north gable end marking its construction in 1753. It was extended and reroofed in the 19th century. The building is made of coursed limestone rubble and features a steeply pitched roof covered in Welsh slates. It has four bays, with the southern bay being from the 19th century. The house is two storeys tall. On the east elevation, there are three casement windows with glazing bars on each floor. The gabled porch is adorned with crested ridge tiles and scalloped bargeboards. The west (rear) elevation also has three casement windows with glazing bars on each floor.
Local climate
The Old Wheatsheaf sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% 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 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% 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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