Highfield House is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 August 1983. Farmhouse.
Highfield House
- WRENN ID
- mired-glass-dale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 August 1983
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Highfield House, Brickhill
- OS grid reference
- TL 055 543
- Coordinates
- 52.17759, -0.45849
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Highfield House is a farmhouse dating from the late 16th century or early 17th century, with a later 17th-century projecting wing to the northwest that has a one-storey lean-to on its southwest gable end. The building is timber framed and features a colour-washed rough cast exterior. It has a 20th-century tiled roof that is half-hipped to the southeast and hipped to the northwest. The house is arranged in an L-plan and has one storey with attics. There are hipped dormers on the northwest, southeast, and southwest elevations. All windows are 20th-century casements, and the doors are plank-style. A stone ridge stack is present on the earlier block, featuring two diagonally set rendered brick shafts with corbelled caps.
Local climate
Highfield 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, more than 50% 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings