Park Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 October 1966. House. 3 related planning applications.
Park Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-glass-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 October 1966
- Type
- House
- Address
- Park Farmhouse, Warden Street, Old Warden, SG18 9LR
- OS grid reference
- TL 124 444
- Coordinates
- 52.08658, -0.36005
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Park Farmhouse is a house dating from around 1600, constructed with a timber frame and covered in colourwashed roughcast render. It features a clay tile roof and is designed in an H-plan, with a central block that has one storey and attics, and cross-wings that are two storeys high with attics. Each cross-wing includes a two-storeyed canted bay window, and the attics are jettied, supported by substantial shaped brackets. The right-hand cross-wing has a two-light window in the attic.
The main block has a central gabled porch with one storey and attics, featuring a pointed-arched entrance. This porch is flanked by three-light windows on the ground floor and gabled dormers in the attic. All windows in the house are leaded casements, and there is a plank door set in a moulded surround. The central block is topped with two double ridge stacks made of red brick, with diagonally set shafts; the right-hand stack has a limestone base. The left-hand cross-wing has a similar double ridge stack, while the right-hand cross-wing has a plain brick stack on its side wall.
A plaque on the porch reads: "SW 1788. Restored by SW 1884. 1950". Inside, the right-hand wing retains a 17th-century staircase with some turned balusters, illuminated by a seven-light mullioned leaded window. There are also some moulded and stopped beams on the ground floor.
Local climate
Park 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 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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