Barn at Village Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 July 1964. Barn.
Barn at Village Farm
- WRENN ID
- knotted-terrace-aspen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 July 1964
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- Barn at Village Farm, High Street, Odell
- OS grid reference
- SP 963 576
- Coordinates
- 52.20908, -0.59111
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The barn at Village Farm is a 17th-century threshing barn located immediately north of the farmhouse and aligned with it. It is constructed from coursed limestone rubble and features a pantiled roof. The northern gable end is stone-coped and has three slits along with prominent putlogs. Inside, the barn has a five-bay layout with a queen post roof, double purlins, and straight braces.
Local climate
Barn at Village Farm 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2020
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