Little Church Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 June 1974. House.
Little Church Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- rough-gargoyle-poplar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 June 1974
- Type
- House
- Address
- Little Church Farmhouse, Vicarage Lane, Wilshamstead
- OS grid reference
- TL 062 433
- Coordinates
- 52.07853, -0.45143
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Little Church Farmhouse is a house dating from around 1700, with later additions. It features colourwashed roughcast over a timber frame and an old clay tile roof. The building has a three-room layout, with the left-hand bay possibly being a later addition, and a gabled block on the right-hand side. It stands two storeys tall. On the ground floor, there are two three-light casements with glazing bars and one two-light casement with glazing bars. The first floor has four two-light casements with leaded lights. The central front door is made up of six fielded panels and has a moulded cornice supported by cut brackets, although it is concealed by a 20th-century porch. There is also a plank door on the gable. The house has one red brick ridge stack and one red brick integral stack on the south gable end.
Local climate
Little Church 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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