Old Greenend Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 January 1992. Farmhouse.
Old Greenend Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Luton South and South Bedfordshire MP: Rachel Hopkins (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 January 1992
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Old Greenend Farmhouse, Common Road, Kensworth
- OS grid reference
- TL 021 183
- Coordinates
- 51.85459, -0.51882
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Greenend Farmhouse is a farmhouse that likely dates back to the 16th century and was extended in the early 19th century. It features a timber frame that is faced in painted brick, with additional extensions in Flemish bond painted brick. The roofs are covered with plain tiles and have gabled ends, with brick gable end and axial stacks.
The building has an L-shaped plan, consisting of a two-room front range with a central entrance. Both rooms are heated by gable end stacks, and the left room is an early 19th-century extension or rebuild, indicated by a brick at the rear inscribed "A E 1827." The long wing at the rear of the right-hand room contains timber framing and has a later, partly rebuilt extension at its southern end.
The exterior is two storeys high with an asymmetrical three-window arrangement on the north front range. It features 20th-century two and three-light casements, while the ground floor on the left has a 19th-century 16-pane sash window. The central doorway is framed by a pilastered doorcase with a bracketed canopy, a rectangular overlight, and a glazed and panelled door. A brick platband is present at first floor level on the left side of the front. The left gable end displays some exposed timber framing and an external brick stack with set-offs, while the right gable end has a hatch to the attic with a small plank door.
At the rear, there is a long single-storey and attic wing featuring 20th-century casements, a flat roof dormer, and a roof light, with the southern end rebuilt in brick. Inside, the farmhouse has chamfered and stopped ceiling beams, exposed timber framing with jowled posts, curved braces to tie-beams, collars with clasped purlins, and curved wind-braces.
Local climate
Old Greenend 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 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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