The Barns is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 July 1964. Country house. 4 related planning applications.
The Barns
- WRENN ID
- slow-passage-wren
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- Bedford MP: Mohammad Yasin (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 July 1964
- Type
- Country house
- Address
- The Barns, Cardington Road, MK44 3SA
- OS grid reference
- TL 075 486
- Coordinates
- 52.12569, -0.43011
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Barns is a country house that dates back to 1630 and was altered in 1760. It features colour-washed roughcast and an old tile roof, standing two storeys tall. The left side of the building is recessed while the right side projects, with a total of eight leaded casement windows arranged in a 3:1:4 pattern. The left side includes three half dormer windows. The central block has an arched porch in antis that was added in 1949. The right side, which was added in the early 19th century, features a similar porch and a gabled half dormer window. The house has 19th-century chimney stacks with grouped diagonal shafts. The north elevation showcases a mid-18th-century bay window that is rounded internally. Inside, there is a mid-18th-century open string staircase with turned balusters and a moulded handrail. The first floor includes a barrel vaulted passage and three original ceilings with coved cornices. The Barns and the Barn form a group.
Local climate
The Barns 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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