Home Close Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 July 1964. Farmhouse.
Home Close Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- dreaming-pinnacle-holly
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 July 1964
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Home Close Farmhouse, 58, Court Lane, Stevington
- OS grid reference
- SP 987 535
- Coordinates
- 52.17156, -0.55812
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Home Close Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from 1708, as indicated by the datestone on the south gable end. The building is constructed of coursed limestone rubble and features an old clay tile roof with stone cable coping. It stands two storeys high and has two modern casements on both floors. The central doorway is topped by a 19th-century cut bracketed gabled doorhood. There is also a modern two-storey extension on the right-hand side.
Local climate
Home Close 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 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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