Tithe Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1987. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.
Tithe Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- vast-attic-wax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Tithe Farmhouse, Tithe Road, Kempston Rural, MK43 9BE
- OS grid reference
- TL 001 470
- Coordinates
- 52.11262, -0.53915
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a late 17th or early 18th century brick house, now with a rendered and colourwashed roughcast exterior. It has a hipped roof covered in old clay tiles. The building is arranged in an "H" shape. The upper floor has sash windows with glazing bars, arranged as 1:3:1, with the central window of the main wing blocked. The ground floor of the projecting wings features three-light sash windows. The central block has two sash windows framing a six-panel door, which is sheltered by a cut bracketed doorhood. A single-storey extension is attached to the right-hand side.
Local climate
Tithe 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2019
- 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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