Sweetbrier Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 March 1985. Farmhouse.
Sweetbrier Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- sharp-chapel-jet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 March 1985
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Sweetbrier Farmhouse, Old Warden
- OS grid reference
- TL 123 452
- Coordinates
- 52.09439, -0.3616
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sweetbrier Farmhouse is a house dating from the 17th century, likely refronted in the 18th century. It features colourwashed roughcast over a timber frame and has a clay tile roof that is hipped at the south and east corners. The building is arranged in a U-plan, with a front block of two storeys and cross-wings that also rise to two storeys and attics.
On the southeast elevation, there are three 3-light casement windows with glazing bars on each floor. The entrance, located between the two right-hand bays, has a flat hood supported by cut brackets and a 20th-century door. The eaves cornice is moulded wood, and there are two red brick ridge stacks, with the left-hand one being substantial and having a rebuilt top. The other elevations mainly feature 20th-century casements with glazing bars.
Local climate
Sweetbrier Farmhouse 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 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% 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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