Home Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1985. A C19 House.

Home Farmhouse

WRENN ID
under-outpost-sage
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Central Bedfordshire
Constituency
Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 January 1985
Type
House
Address
Home Farmhouse, Silsoe
OS grid reference
TL 088 363
Coordinates
52.01532, -0.41461
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Home Farmhouse is a house dating from the 16th century, with alterations made in the 19th century. It features colourwashed roughcast render over a structure that is partly timber framed and partly made of brick, topped with clay tile roofs. The original building has a T-shaped plan, with a 19th-century cross-wing on the east side and additional blocks added to the rear in the later 19th century. The house is two storeys high.

On the south elevation, the left-hand original cross-wing juts out at the first floor and has a 19th-century canted bay window at the ground floor. The central block has been extended at the ground floor in the 20th century to align with the gables. All windows are 20th-century replacement casement windows with glazing bars. A substantial rendered multiple ridge stack is located at the junction of the left-hand cross-wing and the central block.

Local climate

Home Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 87% 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, 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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