Gracious Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 October 1966. House. 1 related planning application.
Gracious Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- night-chalk-coral
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 October 1966
- Type
- House
- Address
- Gracious Farmhouse, High Street, Southill, SG18 9JB
- OS grid reference
- TL 150 419
- Coordinates
- 52.06384, -0.32241
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gracious Farmhouse is a house dating from around 1600, with later additions and alterations. It features a substantial timber frame and has a colourwashed roughcast render on the exterior. The roof is made of clay tiles and the building has a complex plan with two storeys. The front of the house has two gables on the left-hand side with a jettied first floor, and a later gable on the right-hand side. There are various casement windows, most of which are 20th-century replacements. The entrance is through a porch on the east elevation. A substantial external chimney stack on the east elevation has a pair of brick octagonal shafts with moulded caps and bases, along with a variety of brick stacks on other parts of the building.
Local climate
Gracious 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 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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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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