Crinkle Crankle Wall at Home Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 November 1986. Garden wall.
Crinkle Crankle Wall at Home Farm
- WRENN ID
- over-slate-aspen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 November 1986
- Type
- Garden wall
- Address
- Crinkle Crankle Wall at Home Farm, Wrestlingworth and Cockayne Hatley
- OS grid reference
- TL 257 498
- Coordinates
- 52.13231, -0.16438
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Crinkle Crankle Wall at Home Farm is a garden wall that forms the northern side of a walled orchard. It dates from the late 18th century, with repairs made in the 19th century. The wall is constructed of red brick laid in Flemish bond and features a plain brick coping. It stands approximately 2 metres high and stretches about 60 metres long. The design is angular rather than curving, consisting of 10 zigzags, with a short section of straight wall added in the 19th century at the center. Each end of the wall returns to run southwards for about 5 metres, beyond which the garden is enclosed by lower 19th-century walls. This wall is noted as an example of an architectural feature that is rarely found in this area and is the only known example in Bedfordshire.
Local climate
Crinkle Crankle Wall at Home Farm 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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