Ouse Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 October 1966. Residential.

Ouse Farmhouse

WRENN ID
open-spandrel-hyssop
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Central Bedfordshire
Constituency
North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
31 October 1966
Type
Residential
Address
Ouse Farmhouse, Church Street (Church End), Tempsford
OS grid reference
TL 161 533
Coordinates
52.16589, -0.30365
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Ouse Farmhouse is a house from the 18th century that was extended in the 19th century, although it likely has an earlier core. The building is mainly constructed of colourwashed brick, with the rear elevation featuring some colourwashed roughcast render that seems to cover timber framing. It has two storeys and attics, with a depth of one room.

The east elevation has a five-bay range. The left-hand bay on both the ground and first floors is blank, while the other bays feature 19th-century sash windows with glazing bars. The attic includes five gabled dormers that contain two-light casements. There is a six-panel door, with the top pair being glazed, beneath a semi-circular fanlight adorned with ornamental glazing bars. The doorway appears to have been central in the 18th-century arrangement, with the left-hand section of the range beyond the ridge stack being a later addition that includes an outshut at the rear. There is an integral gable end stack on the right-hand side.

Local climate

Ouse 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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