Hartwell Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1961. House. 1 related planning application.

Hartwell Farmhouse

WRENN ID
old-lead-mint
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Central Bedfordshire
Constituency
Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 January 1961
Type
House
Address
Hartwell Farmhouse, Court Road, Cranfield, MK43 0DX
OS grid reference
SP 957 418
Coordinates
52.06705, -0.60442
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Hartwell Farmhouse is a house that features an earlier 18th-century recasing of a 17th-century structure. It is built of red brick, with some vitrified bricks, and has lighter red brick dressings. The roof is steeply pitched and hipped, covered with clay tiles. Internally, some substantial timber framing is visible. The main block is two storeys high with attics and is single room deep, while a lower two-storey block at the rear forms an L-shape.

The front elevation is symmetrical, with a brick band at the first floor level. There are five windows on the first floor and four on the ground floor. The central and right-hand windows on the first floor are blind, while the others are flush sashes with glazing bars. The ground floor windows are set under gauged brick flat arches. The central doorway features a six-fielded panel door beneath a rectangular fanlight, topped with a flat hood on cut brackets. A Britannia fire insurance plaque is set into the wall above the doorway. The attic includes a hipped dormer with a two-light casement. The eaves cornice is moulded timber, and there is a red brick chimney stack on the rear wall.

Inside, the first floor hallway has some reset 17th-century panelling with a moulded frieze.

Local climate

Hartwell Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% 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 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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