Turnpike Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 November 1986. House.

Turnpike Farmhouse

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Central Bedfordshire
Constituency
North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 November 1986
Type
House
Address
Turnpike Farmhouse, Biggleswade Road, Sutton, SG18 0EP
OS grid reference
TL 204 464
Coordinates
52.10308, -0.24278
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Turnpike Farmhouse is a house dating from the 17th century, with later alterations in the 18th and 19th centuries. It features colourwashed roughcast render that covers substantial timber framing and has clay tile roofs. The original 17th-century section is two storeys high and follows a three-room plan. An 18th-century addition projects from the west part of the rear, and there are 20th-century additions projecting from the east part of the rear, creating a U-shaped building.

On the south elevation, both floors have three sash windows with glazing bars. The first-floor windows are later additions, wider with larger panes. There is a 19th-century doorway located between the two right-hand bays, which consists of a six-panel door set within a moulded surround and is sheltered by a flat-headed open porch supported by square-timber piers. Above the doorway is a small two-light casement window. This doorway aligns with a back-to-back hearth, forming a lobby entrance. The ridge stack and the left-hand gable end stack are made of red brick with linked diagonally set shafts. The rear and side elevations display a variety of casement windows with glazing bars, mostly dating from the 20th century. The ground floor of the northwest wing has been rebuilt in brick, which is also colourwashed.

Local climate

Turnpike 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 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 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 0.3°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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