Coldharbour Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 March 1985. Farmhouse.
Coldharbour Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- nether-cornice-moth
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 March 1985
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Coldharbour Farmhouse, Old Warden
- OS grid reference
- TL 129 440
- Coordinates
- 52.08364, -0.35307
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Coldharbour Farmhouse is a house from the Shuttleworth estate, marked with a plaque showing the year 1878 and the Shuttleworth emblem. It is built of mottled yellow brick with red brick dressings and features a clay tile roof adorned with bands of fishscale tiles, showcasing cottage ornee details. The building is L-shaped, comprising one storey and attics.
On the south elevation, the ground floor has two three-light and one two-light casement windows, all set under cambered heads. The attic features three gabled dormers, each with two-light casement windows, and all windows are made of cast iron lattice. The doorway located between the two right-hand bays has a tiled sloping hood supported by curved timber braces, leading to a 20th-century glazed door. There are red brick bands at the sill and head level of the ground floor. The dormers are topped with wavy-edged ridge cresting, and there are two brick ridge stacks with Tudor-style chimney pots. The other elevations are designed in a similar style.
Local climate
Coldharbour 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 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% 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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