Wakehams is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 March 1987. House. 2 related planning applications.
Wakehams
- WRENN ID
- graven-pediment-linden
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 March 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Wakehams, Eversholt, MK17 9DU
- OS grid reference
- SP 984 324
- Coordinates
- 51.98165, -0.5683
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wakehams is a 17th-century house located at Church End in Eversholt. It features a timber-framed construction with colourwashed brick infill and a half-hipped clay tile roof. The house has a three-room plan and is one storey high with attics. On the ground floor, there are three casement windows, while the upper floor has three box dormers, each containing two 2-light casement windows and one 3-light casement window, all with glazing bars. The house has two plank doors, each with gabled bracketed hoods. A colourwashed brick double ridge stack is positioned in line with the right-hand door, and there is an integral colourwashed stack at the left-hand end.
Local climate
Wakehams sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- 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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