College Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 July 1964. A C17 Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
College Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- frozen-postern-azure
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 July 1964
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- College Farmhouse, High Street, Roxton, MK44 3EA
- OS grid reference
- TL 152 548
- Coordinates
- 52.17963, -0.3155
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
College Farmhouse is a 16th and 17th century timber-framed farmhouse situated on Roxton High Street. The building exhibits a T-shaped plan, with a prominent cross-wing and main block. The timber framing is visible with close-studding to the cross-wing and an adjoining part of the main block. The eastern elevation features colour-washed plaster infill and rough cast render. The roof is covered in old clay tiles. The east elevation of the cross-wing has a single two-light horizontal sash window with glazing bars on each floor. The main block has one two-light horizontal sash window and one three-light casement window to the ground floor, and one two-light horizontal sash window and two three-light casement windows to the first floor; all windows have glazing bars. A 20th-century door is located beneath a flat hood, aligned with a red brick double ridge stack. A red brick integral stack is present, and the north gable end has coping. The south elevation displays a substantial limestone chimney breast topped by rebuilt paired red brick diagonal stacks.
Local climate
College 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 98% 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 53% 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 0.4°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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2008
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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