Woodhall Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 January 1985. House.
Woodhall Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- rooted-tower-thistle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 January 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Woodhall Farmhouse, Meppershall
- OS grid reference
- TL 135 376
- Coordinates
- 52.02579, -0.34707
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Woodhall Farmhouse is a house dating from the 16th century, with some alterations made in the 19th century. It is constructed with a timber frame and has a colourwashed roughcast render, while the ground floor has been encased and rebuilt in colourwashed brick. The building features clay tile roofs and is designed in a two-storeyed T-plan layout. The 19th-century windows include two and three-light casements throughout, except for a 20th-century bow window on the southwest gable end. There is a gabled porch made of colourwashed brick with an oak plank door on the southeast elevation. The cross-wing has a multiple ridge stack, and there are two substantial external chimney stacks on the northwest elevation of the main block, with the upper parts rebuilt in 19th-century yellow brick and the lower parts rendered. A single-storeyed lean-to addition is located on the northwest side.
Inside, the cross-wing's ground floor features moulded beams, which suggest that there was at least a first-floor jetty to the northwest. There are two 4-centred arched stone fireplaces, one of which has foliate carving and a coat of arms, likely imported from another location. Panelled dado, also imported, flanks one of the fireplaces. Additionally, there is an 18th-century staircase with paired turned balusters.
Local climate
Woodhall Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% 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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