Speedwell Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 October 1952. House. 2 related planning applications.
Speedwell Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- former-moat-hemlock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 October 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- Speedwell Farmhouse, London Road, Woburn, MK17 9HT
- OS grid reference
- SP 954 323
- Coordinates
- 51.98121, -0.61201
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Speedwell Farmhouse is a house that likely dates from the late 17th century but was reworked between 1795 and 1802 for the Bedford estate under the direction of Robert Salmon. It has an H-plan layout, is two storeys high with attics, and features an east cross-wing. The ends of the east cross-wing have moulded coping.
On the south elevation, each cross-wing has one window per floor, with the right-hand wing's window being off-centre. The central sashes vary in width, have glazing bars, and are set in plain reveals. The central block includes one hipped dormer with a small-paned two-light casement. There is a doorway to the right of the central block, next to the junction with the cross-wing, featuring a part-glazed door beneath a 19th-century timber open porch with a sloping roof. A colourwashed ridge stack is located at the junction of the central block and the cross-wing.
The road elevation has a first-floor band that continues around the right-hand end. Both the ground and first floors have three sashes with glazing bars in plain reveals. The attic features two hipped dormers with small-paned casements. The north elevation includes a two-storey gabled addition within the east angle, as well as various lean-to additions.
Local climate
Speedwell Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% 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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- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- 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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