Turnpike Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 August 1983. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.

Turnpike Farmhouse

WRENN ID
eternal-tracery-sepia
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bedford
Constituency
North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 August 1983
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Turnpike Farmhouse, St Neots Road, Bolnhurst and Keysoe, MK44 2EP
OS grid reference
TL 087 598
Coordinates
52.22582, -0.40988
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Turnpike Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from around 1700. It features colour washed rough cast over a timber frame and has a slate roof. The building consists of four bays and is two storeys high. The central front door aligns with a red brick double ridge stack. There are four casement windows on each floor; the three left-hand bays have leaded glass, while the ground floor windows have wooden mullions. To the west, there is a 19th-century red brick addition that is two storeys tall with an old day tile roof, and it has a ground floor casement window with a cambered head. Additionally, there is a one-storey pantiled extension on the east gable end.

Local climate

Turnpike 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 97% 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 52% 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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