Duck End Farm House is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 June 1974. House. 7 related planning applications.
Duck End Farm House
- WRENN ID
- white-corridor-cream
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 June 1974
- Type
- House
- Address
- Duck End Farm House, 7, Duck End Lane, Wilstead, Wilshamstead, MK45 3HP
- OS grid reference
- TL 060 440
- Coordinates
- 52.08503, -0.45315
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Duck End Farm House is an 18th and 19th century house located on Duck End Lane, Wilstead. It is constructed of chequered red and vitrified brickwork, with red brick alterations and additions, and has clay tile roofs. The house has an L-shaped layout extending over two storeys. A variety of casement windows are present, with those on the ground floor placed under segmental arches. The south elevation features a later canted bay window to the left, a blocked doorway with a segmental head in the centre, and red brick integral stacks at each gable end. A dentil eaves cornice is also present. The west elevation has a blocked doorway and a 19th-century extension to the north. An east-facing two-storeyed lean-to addition has been incorporated.
Local climate
Duck End Farm House 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 95% 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 54% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2007
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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