Home Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 October 1966. House. 2 related planning applications.
Home Farm
- WRENN ID
- graven-glass-martin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 October 1966
- Type
- House
- Address
- Home Farm, 2, High Street, Wrestlingworth, Wrestlingworth and Cockayne Hatley, SG19 2EW
- OS grid reference
- TL 258 470
- Coordinates
- 52.10781, -0.16327
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Home Farm is a house, likely dating back to the 16th century or earlier, with significant alterations from the 18th and 19th centuries. It was formerly part of the endowment of Downing College Cambridge, established in 1764 by Sir Jacob Downing. Its history is linked to the Hereford Manor, with the farm possibly representing the former manor house.
The house is a substantial timber-framed building, now rendered and colourwashed. It has slate roofs, a central block, and projecting cross-wings. The central block is said to contain smoke-blackened roof timbers, suggesting that the first floor and associated chimney may have been added later.
The south elevation features casement windows with glazing bars; the ground floor has one- and three-light windows, while the first floor has two- and five-light windows. Gables have casement and sash windows, also with glazing bars. A six-panel front door, the top two panels glazed, is positioned within a cross-passage, aligned with a canted bay containing a French window to the rear. A substantial red brick stack serves a back-to-back hearth. The cross-wings have external brick stacks. A later lean-to addition of colourwashed brick and slate is attached to the left-hand cross-wing.
Local climate
Home Farm 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2015
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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