Onion House and Cart Shed is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 November 1999. Crop storage building. 1 related planning application.
Onion House and Cart Shed
- WRENN ID
- young-corner-dock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 November 1999
- Type
- Crop storage building
- Address
- Onion House and Cart Shed, Manor Farm, Northill, SG18 9BB
- OS grid reference
- TL 181 467
- Coordinates
- 52.10615, -0.27579
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Onion House and Cart Shed is a mid-19th century building that was reroofed in the later 19th century. It features softwood framing with weatherboard cladding and a Welsh slate roof, which was formerly thatched. The structure is two storeys high and consists of four by two bays. The cartshed has square posts with struts, resting on stone pads, and the north and east sides are open while the other sides are weatherboarded. The upper storey contains several slatted drying floors. The north, south, and east sides have three tiers of vertically hinged ventilation flaps, while the west side has two. The south side includes two taking-in doors, with one on the north side, and both east and west gables feature similar doors at the peaks. This building is a specialized type of crop storage and processing facility, unique to the area, and is associated with the predominant crop during the period from around 1850 to 1900.
Local climate
Onion House and Cart Shed 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 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% 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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