Church Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 October 1966. House. 7 related planning applications.

Church Farmhouse

WRENN ID
calm-stone-poplar
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Central Bedfordshire
Constituency
Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
31 October 1966
Type
House
Address
Church Farmhouse, Astwick, SG5 4BH
OS grid reference
TL 213 385
Coordinates
52.03191, -0.23305
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Church Farmhouse is a house that dates from the 17th century or earlier, with additions and alterations made in the 18th and 19th centuries. It features timber-framed construction covered with colourwashed roughcast render and has clay tile roofs, some of which display a diamond pattern. There is also a 19th-century block made of colourwashed brick. The building is a two-storey L-plan structure, with two additional gables at the northern angle, creating an overall rectangular shape.

On the west elevation, there are two canted bays on the ground floor that contain sash windows with glazing bars, alongside a six-panel door set within a part-glazed porch. The first floor has three three-light casement windows. The other elevations showcase a variety of window styles, including a horizontal sash window on the first floor of the northern elevation. The original blocks feature red brick ridge stacks on the west and south sides, while the 19th-century block has a red brick gable end stack.

Local climate

Church Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% 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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