Fen Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 November 1986. House.
Fen Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- lunar-landing-bistre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 November 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Fen Farmhouse, Carthagena Road, Sutton
- OS grid reference
- TL 209 486
- Coordinates
- 52.12253, -0.23463
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fen Farmhouse is a house dating from the 17th and 18th centuries. It features a colourwashed roughcast exterior over a timber-framed structure and has clay tile roofs. The building consists of a three-room, two-storey block, with a lower 18th-century addition that projects from the southwest, creating an L-shaped plan.
On the east elevation, the ground floor has two three-light casement windows, while the first floor has four two-light casement windows. There is a six-panel door, with the top pair being glazed, set in a simply moulded surround, and a gabled bracketed door hood above it. In line with the door is a red brick double ridge stack that serves back-to-back hearths. The rear elevation includes a lean-to addition to the main block and features a variety of casement windows.
Local climate
Fen 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 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% 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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