Wootton House is a Grade II* listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 May 1952. Country house.
Wootton House
- WRENN ID
- ragged-moat-woodpecker
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 May 1952
- Type
- Country house
- Address
- Wootton House, Church Road
- OS grid reference
- TL 002 450
- Coordinates
- 52.0947, -0.53819
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wootton House is a small country house dating from the late 17th century. It features red brick that is now plaster rendered and has a hipped old clay tile roof. The building measures eight bays long and five bays deep, and it is two storeys high with attics. The facade displays two storeys with dentil eaves and includes eight sashes with glazing bars set in architrave surrounds on the first floor, along with six ground floor sashes. A central classical gabled porch with a broken pediment is supported by paired Doric pilasters, and it has a half-glazed door with a semi-circular fanlight. To the right side, there is a two-bay recessed wing. The side and rear elevations also rise two storeys with attics and feature hipped dormers. The windows are similar to those on the front, but the rear elevation has a tall semi-circular headed window with glazing bars, located to the right of centre, which illuminates the staircase. The house has panelled red brick chimney stacks and a simple interior that retains some original panelling.
Local climate
Wootton 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 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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