Fordlands is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1987. House.
Fordlands
- WRENN ID
- tangled-outpost-claret
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Fordlands, Podington
- OS grid reference
- SP 935 613
- Coordinates
- 52.24275, -0.63179
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fordlands is a house dating from the late 17th century or 18th century. It is constructed of coursed limestone rubble and features a thatched roof. The building is two storeys high. The front elevation includes two first floor casement windows with glazing bars. On the ground floor, there is one three-light and one two-light casement window, both also with glazing bars. A 20th-century porch with a clay tile roof is present. At the rear, there is a wing built at right angles, dating from the late 18th century or 19th century, made of limestone rubble and topped with a pantile roof. This wing is one storey high and has attics, with a 19th-century lean-to that now has a corrugated iron roof.
Local climate
Fordlands 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 92% 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 54% 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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