Lower 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.
Lower Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-portal-meadow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 July 1964
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Lower Farmhouse, High Street, Swineshead, MK44 2AA
- OS grid reference
- TL 059 657
- Coordinates
- 52.27946, -0.44846
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lower Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the late 16th century. It is timber framed, with a colour washed rough cast exterior and a clay tile roof. The building has a three-room plan and is two storeys high with attics. A red brick ridge stack with three linked diagonally-set shafts is located between the two western rooms.
On the south elevation, the west end features a one-storey lean-to extension made of timber frame with brick infill. There is also a one-storey brick lean-to extension at the west end of the north elevation. In 1982, a two-storey gable-ended extension was added to the centre of the north elevation, creating a T-plan layout. All extensions have a colour washed rough cast finish. The farmhouse retains a leaded four-light casement window on the south-east corner of the southern extension, while all other windows are 20th-century leaded casements designed in a similar style.
Local climate
Lower 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 92% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2021
- 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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