Manor Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 July 1964. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.

Manor Farmhouse

WRENN ID
silver-spandrel-aspen
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bedford
Constituency
North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
13 July 1964
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Manor Farmhouse, High Street, Swineshead, MK44 2AA
OS grid reference
TL 056 658
Coordinates
52.28081, -0.45253
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Manor Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from around 1600 and the mid-18th century. It features red brick over a timber frame, with the gable facing the road partially rendered. The roof is made of old clay tiles. The building is two storeys in an L-plan, with a one-storey and attic addition to the west and a mid-18th century two-storey double-pile block to the east.

The 18th-century block has sash windows with glazing bars under flat arches on both floors, although the ground floor window is of later date. There is a moulded brick cornice. The linking bay has two light horizontal sash windows on each floor. The central block features two three-light casements under cambered heads on the ground floor and two three-light leaded wood mullioned windows on the first floor. The east wing has three three-light 20th-century casements beneath cambered heads, with hipped dormers that have two-light casements. The gabled east elevation includes flat-arched dummy windows and a later sash window with glazing bars under a flat arch on the ground floor.

Local climate

Manor 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 91% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% 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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