Ley Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 April 1978. Farmhouse. 4 related planning applications.

Ley Farmhouse

WRENN ID
shifting-joist-bittern
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Central Bedfordshire
Constituency
Luton South and South Bedfordshire MP: Rachel Hopkins (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 April 1978
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Ley Farmhouse, 7, the Rye, Eaton Bray
OS grid reference
SP 967 213
Coordinates
51.88218, -0.59584
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Ley Farmhouse is a 17th-century core with substantial 19th-century additions or rebuildings to the front. The house is two storeys high and built of brick, some gault and some brown brick. It has a modern tile roof and an old brick stack in the centre of the rear wing. The front features two oriels with diamond-paned windows in four lights, each topped with a canopy of fishscale slates. The left-hand side has a timber-framed archway with brick infill. A 19th-century porch is on the right-hand side elevation.

Local climate

Ley Farmhouse 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 77% 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 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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  • Sale history — 3 transactions since 2006
  • Related listed building consents — 4 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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