2 and 6, Ford Lane is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 March 1980. A C17 House.
2 and 6, Ford Lane
- WRENN ID
- strange-finial-ebony
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 March 1980
- Type
- House
- Address
- 2 and 6, Ford Lane, Roxton
- OS grid reference
- TL 151 542
- Coordinates
- 52.1744, -0.31737
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 2 and 6 Ford Lane, formerly known as Park Farmhouse, are two houses dating from around 1600. The buildings are timber framed, primarily rendered and colour washed, although some limbers are exposed on No 2. They feature a clay tile roof that is hipped at the southeast corner and gabled elsewhere. The main block is long with a projecting wing at the center of the southwest elevation and a cross-wing, which may be of earlier origin, to the southeast. The houses are two storeys tall. Most of the windows are from the 20th century, but the cross-wing retains some 19th-century features, including a three-light horizontal sash window. There are doors on the north and south elevations, all from the 20th century. The roof dates from the 18th century and there is a plaque on the north wall that reads "T.B.III (?) 1704". Additionally, there is an 18th-century single-storey lean-to on the southwest elevation and a late 19th-century brick barn adjoining to the northwest.
Local climate
2 and 6, Ford Lane 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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