Garden Wall at Manor Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1984. Garden wall. 1 related planning application.
Garden Wall at Manor Farm
- WRENN ID
- other-gable-pine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 May 1984
- Type
- Garden wall
- Address
- Garden Wall at Manor Farm, Church End, Willington, MK44 3PX
- OS grid reference
- TL 105 497
- Coordinates
- 52.13521, -0.38615
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The garden wall at Manor Farm is a boundary wall that includes some remains of a former manor house. It dates from the 17th century, with one section from the 18th century that was altered in the 19th century. The plan consists of two squares, with no wall at the bottom of the right-hand square. The western square appears to have been a garden wall, with a separate boundary wall to the east that is linked to the garden wall from the 18th century.
The southwest section is made of red brick with a diaper pattern in vitrified bricks, approximately 40 metres long and standing about 1 metre high. It features two fireplaces that are blocked with what seems to be earlier bricks, possibly from the 16th century, indicating that this was the northeast elevation of part of the earlier manor house. The southeast wall is also red brick with a diaper pattern in vitrified bricks, approximately 50 metres long and 1 metre high.
The northwest section of the western square is made of red brick on a stone base, approximately 50 metres long and 1 metre high. The northeast section of the western square is made of red brick, also about 50 metres long and 1 metre high. The northwest section of the eastern square has an 18th-century base with 19th-century repairs and features a series of triangular brick buttresses on the inner side, measuring approximately 60 metres long and 1 metre high.
The northeast section of the eastern square is made of red brick with some diaper patterning in vitrified bricks on a stone base, with coping consisting of two rows of standing bricks inclined in a triangular shape. This section is about 60 metres long and varies in height from 1 to 2 metres, with an L-shaped addition a few metres long to the northeast. This section adjoins the churchyard of St Lawrence's Church.
Local climate
Garden Wall at Manor Farm 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 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% 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
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2006
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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