Charity Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 February 1987. House. 4 related planning applications.
Charity Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- noble-lintel-stoat
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 February 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Charity Farmhouse, Beancroft Road, Marston Moreteyne, MK43 0QF
- OS grid reference
- SP 983 426
- Coordinates
- 52.07321, -0.56623
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Charity Farmhouse is a house dating from the early 17th century. It features a substantial timber frame with red brick infill that is covered with colourwashed render, and it has clay tiled roofs. The main block, which is nearest to the road, stands on a substantial coursed limestone plinth and is two storeys high, consisting of three bays with a gable end facing the road.
Adjoining the main block is a one-storey and attic section, which is a later addition and forms an L-shape with the main building. The northwest elevation displays a variety of casement windows, with three on each floor; some of these have glazing bars while others are 20th-century replacements with leaded lights. There are also two blocked mullioned windows visible on the first floor. The central bay features a doorway that is now sheltered by a 20th-century hipped porch. A red brick multiple ridge stack serves the two right-hand bays, and the roof is half-hipped.
On the road elevation, the main block's gable has one two-light casement window on each floor, along with a blocked mullioned window in the attic. The left-hand block has one two-light casement window on the ground floor and two gabled dormers with casements. There is also a red brick external stack on the left-hand gable end.
Local climate
Charity 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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