Beckeringspark Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 October 1952. A C17 House.
Beckeringspark Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- inner-pier-sparrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 October 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- Beckeringspark Farmhouse, Ridgmont
- OS grid reference
- SP 995 364
- Coordinates
- 52.01725, -0.55109
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Beckeringspark Farmhouse is a house that dates from the 17th century or earlier, but has been heavily modified in the 19th century. It features a variety of brick types, mostly red, with the earlier sections built in English bond. The roof is covered with 20th-century tiles. The building has a complex layout, with the main part consisting of two storeys and attics, along with several one and two-storey additions.
On the south elevation, the house has three gables, with the central gable being smaller than the outer ones. The outer gables each have a three-light mullion and transom window on the ground floor, and a two-light mullioned window on the first floor and attic. All of these windows are from the 19th century and are set under gauged brick flat arches, with the surrounding brickwork having been reworked. Each outer gable also features an ornamental blind bullseye window with a raised brick keystone. The central gable has an off-centre two-storeyed gabled porch that has been heavily reworked, with rendered coping, a two-light first-floor casement window, and a four-centred archway with a moulded label. Above the archway is an undated Bedford crest. To the left of the porch is a first-floor casement window, and there is a brick band at the first-floor level. The outer cross-wings have substantial external chimney stacks on the north elevations. The north elevation includes a variety of later lower additions, and there is a single-storeyed outbuilding that adjoins to the west.
Local climate
Beckeringspark 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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