House North East of Chestnut Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 August 1983. House.

House North East of Chestnut Farmhouse

WRENN ID
night-facade-ivory
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bedford
Constituency
North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 August 1983
Type
House
Address
House North East of Chestnut Farmhouse, Tilbrook Road, Dean and Shelton
OS grid reference
TL 055 689
Coordinates
52.30871, -0.45366
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This house, located north-east of Chestnut Farmhouse, dates from the 17th century. It features a colour-washed rough cast exterior over a timber frame and is topped with thatch. The building consists of three bays, is two storeys high with attics, and has a red brick multiple ridge stack. The ground floor includes a 20th-century window and two 2-light horizontal sash windows with glazing bars, while the first floor has three 20th-century casements. The entrance is marked by a six-panel front door beneath a trellis porch. There is a blocked doorway that aligns with the ridge stack. To the north-east, there is a one-storey extension made of colour-washed brick with a weatherboarded end bay and thatch, featuring two 20th-century windows, one of which has a cambered head, and a 20th-century glazed door.

Local climate

House North East of Chestnut 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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