Lower Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 August 1983. Farmhouse.

Lower Farmhouse

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bedford
Constituency
North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 August 1983
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Lower Farmhouse, Little Barford
OS grid reference
TL 180 569
Coordinates
52.1982, -0.2738
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Lower Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the 17th and 19th centuries. It is constructed of red brick and features an old clay tile roof. The building has an irregular plan and stands two storeys high. The earlier northeast block includes a projecting brick string course and various two and three-light casement windows, all with glazing bars. The ground floor windows are set under later cantered heads, and there is a door on the northeast elevation. The 19th-century southwest block features a two-storey canted bay on the southeast gable end, a rendered string course, and sash windows without glazing bars, which are placed under rendered heads with keystones and a dentilated cornice. Additionally, there is a one-storey outhouse addition that projects from the east gable end of the 17th-century block, featuring a rounded wall on the northwest side.

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 98% 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, fewer than 53% 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 0.4°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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