West Grange is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1987. Mansion. 6 related planning applications.
West Grange
- WRENN ID
- quartered-entrance-lichen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1987
- Type
- Mansion
- Address
- West Grange, Hunts Lane, Felmersham, MK43 7JQ
- OS grid reference
- SP 988 577
- Coordinates
- 52.20938, -0.5542
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
West Grange is the western part of a large mansion located on the south bank of the River Ouse, built in 1886. It was formerly one building with East Grange. The structure is made of coursed limestone rubble and features a modern concrete tile roof with stone-coped gable ends. It has a double pile plan and stands two storeys tall.
The front elevation includes two-storey bay windows on both the left and right sides, each topped with stone-coped gables. The left gable displays a shield featuring three lambs and a motto in a square niche. The windows on both the first and ground floors are four-light designs with central stone mullions, heavy wooden mullions, transoms, and hexagonal leaded lights. An inscription is found on the band between the ground and first floors.
On the right side, there is an entrance porch with a plain shield at the apex, and above it, a single-light oriel window sits over a neo-Tudor doorway. To the left of the porch, a gabled first-floor three-light window is adorned with a gargoyle above it, with a four-light ground floor window below. The western elevation features two bay windows with old clay tile roofs, each accompanied by three-light first-floor windows. The gate posts are square and topped with crowned lions gardant holding shields.
Local climate
West Grange sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% 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 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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 — 2 transactions since 2015
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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