Roxton House is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 May 1952. Country house.
Roxton House
- WRENN ID
- eastward-threshold-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 May 1952
- Type
- Country house
- Address
- Roxton House, Bedford Road
- OS grid reference
- TL 150 542
- Coordinates
- 52.17496, -0.31865
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Roxton House is a small country house built in the late 18th century, with additions from the 19th century. It is constructed of red brick and features a stone-coped slate roof. The house has a double-pile plan with a two-span roof and a later parallel block added to the rear on the west side. It stands two storeys tall with attics.
The front elevation is symmetrical, consisting of a five-window facade across two storeys. All windows are sashes with glazing bars set under flat arches. The central doorway is adorned with an entablature featuring paterae and a modillion cornice, supported by Tuscan half columns. The door itself is partially glazed and topped with a semi-circular fanlight that has radiating glazing bars. The parapet is finished with a brick dentil cornice.
The side elevations are three windows deep, with similar window styling to the front. The east elevation has dummy windows in the centre and two attic windows. The 19th-century rear block resembles the main house but includes some casement windows.
Local climate
Roxton House 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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