Old Farm Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 August 1983. House. 3 related planning applications.
Old Farm Cottage
- WRENN ID
- silent-courtyard-azure
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 August 1983
- Type
- House
- Address
- Old Farm Cottage, Staploe, PE19 5JA
- OS grid reference
- TL 146 607
- Coordinates
- 52.23262, -0.32299
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Farm Cottage is a house dating from the 17th century. It features colour washed rough cast over a timber frame and has a half-hipped thatched roof. The building is in an L-plan shape, with two storeys on the east wing and two storeys plus attics on the north. The east block has one two-light horizontal sash window with glazing bars on each floor, along with various casement windows, some of which are from the 20th century. There is a red brick double ridge stack on the east wing and a 20th-century glazed door on the north wing. The east gable end has colour washed brick and rough cast lower additions, and there is a 20th-century colour washed and tiled extension to the northwest.
Local climate
Old Farm Cottage 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1996
- 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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