Whipsnade House is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 April 1952. House.
Whipsnade House
- WRENN ID
- watchful-pedestal-birch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Luton South and South Bedfordshire MP: Rachel Hopkins (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 April 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- Whipsnade House, the Green
- OS grid reference
- TL 012 180
- Coordinates
- 51.85174, -0.53156
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Whipsnade House, formerly known as The Old Rectory, is a 17th-century building that features a timber frame and is pebble-dashed on three sides. It has two storeys and attics, topped with an old clay tile roof. The house includes two gabled dormers and two full-height bays on either side of the doorway. The windows are sash style with glazing bars. The late 19th-century doorway is adorned with a bracketed pediment. Inside, the ground floor room showcases ovolo moulded panelling. There are also rear extensions.
Local climate
Whipsnade House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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