Grove Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 February 1986. House. 2 related planning applications.
Grove Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- gentle-mullion-crag
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 February 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Grove Farmhouse, 18, Main Road, Biddenham, MK40 4BB
- OS grid reference
- TL 023 499
- Coordinates
- 52.1384, -0.50578
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Grove Farmhouse is a pair of 18th century houses that are joined together, with 19th century alterations and an extension at the rear. The main section is built of coursed limestone rubble and features an old clay tile roof. Each house has brick chimney stacks located within their gable ends, with the two central stacks conjoined. The buildings are two storeys high with attics and each has a symmetrical front elevation. The left house includes two three-light dormers and two three-light windows on the ground floor. The right house has two gabled attic dormers with two lights each, three first floor windows, and two ground floor windows, all of which are three-light except for the central first floor window above the front door, which has two lights. This window is complemented by a wooden porch that has a flat cavetto moulded hood supported by two circular columns. All main windows feature pointed arched glazing bars.
Local climate
Grove 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 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- 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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