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
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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
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- Related listed building consents — 3 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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