Moat House is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 May 1952. House.
Moat House
- WRENN ID
- bitter-spandrel-jet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 May 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- Moat House, Church Road, Colmworth
- OS grid reference
- TL 108 586
- Coordinates
- 52.21473, -0.3787
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Moat House, formerly known as the Rectory, is a house that dates from the mid-19th century. It is constructed of yellow gault brick and features a hipped slate roof. The building has a double pile square plan and stands two storeys tall.
The front elevation includes a central double door that is part glazed and has moulded panels on the lower part, set within a moulded architrave. There is an open porch supported by Tuscan columns, which has a balustraded balcony above. A French window with pointed arched glazing bars, a flat arch, and louvred shutters opens onto the balcony. The flanking windows on both floors are fixed lights with glazing bars, which appear to be in reworked openings with cambered heads. Most of the windows on the other facades are sashes with glazing bars, set under flat arches. There is a 20th-century lean-to addition on the north elevation.
Local climate
Moat House 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 97% 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, fewer than 52% 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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