Little Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 August 1983. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Little Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- guardian-gateway-crow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 August 1983
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Little Farmhouse, St Neots Road, Bolnhurst and Keysoe, MK44 2EP
- OS grid reference
- TL 089 597
- Coordinates
- 52.22552, -0.40688
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Little Farmhouse is a 17th-century farmhouse located on St Neots Road in Bolnhurst. The building features a combination of colour washed rough cast and brick over a timber frame, topped with a thatched roof. It is designed in an L-shape, consisting of one storey and attics. On the north elevation, there is an off-centre front door that is sheltered by a 20th-century thatched gabled porch. The ground floor includes one 2-light casement window and two 2-light horizontal sash windows, while the attic has a dormer with a 2-light horizontal sash window. A red brick double ridge stack is present, complete with a linking string course.
Local climate
Little Farmhouse 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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
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