Great Dairy Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 August 1983. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Great Dairy Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- high-cobble-azure
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 August 1983
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Great Dairy Farmhouse, St Neots Road, Renhold, MK41 0JE
- OS grid reference
- TL 104 513
- Coordinates
- 52.14961, -0.3871
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Great Dairy Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the 18th century and early 19th century. The earlier rear wing is timber framed with red brick infill and has a colour washed rough cast render. The later front block is made of red brick with a colour washed plaster facade that is incised to imitate ashlar. The building has 20th century tile roofs and features a double-pile plan with a two-span roof, standing two storeys tall.
The front block has two rectangular bays on the ground floor, each with French windows. The first floor features two 2-light casements with glazing bars, set in architrave surrounds with brackets supporting the sills. These flank a smaller 2-light casement, which is located under a flat stucco arch with a keystone and also has brackets to the sill. The central doorway is sheltered by a gabled timber porch that has trellis-work sides, wavy-edged bargeboards, and a drop finial. Red brick paired stacks are present at both gable ends, and there is a brick band at the eaves level of the gable ends. The rear block has various 20th century casements, and there are one-storey outbuilding additions to the west and east.
Local climate
Great Dairy 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 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% 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 0.3°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 — 2 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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