Middle Farm Cottage Middle Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 August 1983. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Middle Farm Cottage Middle Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- grim-truss-ivory
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 August 1983
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Middle Farm Cottage Middle Farmhouse, High Street, Melchbourne and Yielden, MK44 1AS
- OS grid reference
- TL 012 668
- Coordinates
- 52.29037, -0.51667
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a farmhouse and cottage, dating to the 17th century, originally timber-framed. It was later partly cased and extended in the early 19th century using red brick. Parts of the roof are covered with old clay tiles, while others have new tiles. The original layout was L-shaped, with a gable projecting slightly towards the road, and a double-pile plan extension to the right. The right-hand wing has a 20th-century front door positioned off-centre, accompanied by two 2-light casement windows with glazing bars on each floor; the ground-floor windows have cambered heads. The left-hand gable also features similar casement windows with cambered heads on each floor. A 20th-century extension exists to the left and rear.
Local climate
Middle Farm Cottage Middle 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2012
- 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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