Church Farmhouse and Adjoining Barn is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1987. Farmhouse, barn.

Church Farmhouse and Adjoining Barn

WRENN ID
white-turret-magpie
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bedford
Constituency
North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 August 1987
Type
Farmhouse, barn
OS grid reference
SP 941 627
Coordinates
52.25451, -0.62218
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Church Farmhouse and the adjoining barn are a house and barn dating from the 17th century or early 18th century. They are constructed from coursed limestone rubble and have a clay tile roof. The building is arranged in an L-shape and has two storeys with attics.

On the southeast elevation of the main block, there are casement windows on the first floor. The ground floor features a four-light casement window and a timber gabled porch set on a stone plinth wall. The southwest elevation of the wing has two three-light casement windows on the first floor, while the ground floor includes a small casement window and a doorway topped with a pedimented bracketed hood. At the southeast end, there is a thatched barn made of stone with a weatherboarded gable end.

Local climate

Church Farmhouse and Adjoining Barn 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 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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