Old Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1987. Farmhouse.
Old Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- noble-gallery-rye
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Old Farmhouse, West End Road, Kempston Rural
- OS grid reference
- SP 989 471
- Coordinates
- 52.11418, -0.55644
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Farmhouse is a 17th-century house that has undergone alterations and extensions in the 19th century. It features a colourwashed plaster render on a timber frame and has an old clay tile roof. The building is one storey with attics and consists of three bays. The facade includes two gabled dormers and two ground floor canted bay windows, along with a gabled porch. At the rear, there is a later wing made of colourwashed brick, also one storey with attics and a tile roof, which has 20th-century windows. Additionally, there is a northeast extension that is one storey, constructed from colourwashed brick and render, topped with an old clay tile roof.
Local climate
Old Farmhouse 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 91% 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 56% 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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