Manor Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 February 1987. House. 4 related planning applications.
Manor Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- mired-roof-wren
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 February 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Manor Farmhouse, Brogborough, MK43 0YD
- OS grid reference
- SP 962 390
- Coordinates
- 52.04127, -0.59818
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a farmhouse, likely dating from the 17th century, with significant alterations in the 18th and 19th centuries. It is constructed of red brick, with flared headers; the rear elevation is in English bond, while the other elevations use Flemish bond. The roof is steeply pitched and covered in clay tiles. The house follows a double-pile plan, arranged around a central staircase, forming a U-shaped block.
The southwest elevation has a central six-panel door, topped by a rectangular fanlight with diamond glazing bars within a simple moulded architrave. A shallow, open porch dating from the 20th century stands in front of the door. To the left of the door is a 20th-century bay window, and to the right, and on the first floor, are 19th-century, two-light casement windows with glazing bars. Gauged brick flat arches appear over the 19th-century ground floor windows, one of which has been replaced with yellow brick. A brick band runs along the first-floor level.
The northeast elevation features a recessed staircase bay with a pyramidal roof, and pyramidal roofed dormers on the side elevations. A 19th-century lean-to extends across two blind first-floor windows of the staircase block. The outer blocks of the house each have one window per floor; the first-floor windows are two-light casements with glazing bars, while the left-hand ground floor window is blind, and the right-hand ground floor window is a 20th-century replacement. Most windows have gauged brick flat arches. A brick band also runs along the first-floor level on this elevation.
A single-story, 19th-century outbuilding adjoins the house on the right-hand side. Both side elevations incorporate multiple integral chimney stacks, ornamented with moulded bands, blind arcading, and dentil cornices. One side has a hipped dormer containing a two-light casement.
Local climate
Manor Farmhouse 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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