West End Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1987. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
West End Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- shifting-marble-barley
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- West End Farmhouse, West End Road, Kempston Rural, MK43 8RY
- OS grid reference
- SP 998 482
- Coordinates
- 52.12384, -0.54314
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
West End Farmhouse is a 16th-century timber-framed house that is rendered with colourwashed roughcast. It has undergone minor alterations in the late 18th century or early 19th century and features an old clay tile roof. The building is designed in a T-plan, with a cross-wing on the left-hand side that has a large external chimney stack on the southwest elevation. The farmhouse is two storeys high with attics. The cross-wing includes an attic sash window in the gable end, while the main wing has attic roof lights. Both the first and ground floors of the cross-wing have a 3-light sash window with glazing bars, and the main wing has similar windows on the right-hand side. On the left, there is a single-light casement window on each floor. A central 19th-century gabled porch with carved bargeboards adds to the character of the farmhouse.
Local climate
West End 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 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- 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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