Church Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 June 1974. House. 1 related planning application.
Church Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- calm-screen-khaki
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 June 1974
- Type
- House
- Address
- Church Farmhouse, Vicarage Lane, Wilshamstead, MK45 3EU
- OS grid reference
- TL 062 433
- Coordinates
- 52.07818, -0.45066
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Church Farmhouse is a house dating from 1847, as indicated by a plaque. It is constructed of mottled brick with red brick dressings and has clay tile roofs. The building is two storeys high and features a double-pile block with gabled roofs arranged at right angles.
On the southeast elevation, the left-hand block has a mullioned and transomed window with glazing bars, along with a moulded brick label that has blank shields at the stops. There is a first-floor casement window with glazing bars and a gauged brick head, which breaks through the eaves line into a gabled dormer. The front door is located to the right and features a 4-centred gauged brick head, set under a recessed panel with a moulded dripstone that returns around the panel. The ground and first-floor windows of the right-hand gable are similar to those of the left-hand block.
The gables have raised brick courses that simulate bargeboards, and there is a dentil eaves cornice. Additionally, there are paired diagonal chimney stacks on the northeast elevation.
Local climate
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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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