Church Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 October 1966. House.
Church Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- strange-railing-saffron
- 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
- Church Farmhouse, Sutton
- OS grid reference
- TL 219 474
- Coordinates
- 52.1121, -0.22107
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Church Farmhouse is a house with origins in the 16th century, featuring later modifications. It is constructed with timber framing and has a colourwashed roughcast render, while the gable end of the east block is partly rebuilt in colourwashed brick. The roofs are mostly covered with clay tiles, with some sections using 20th-century tiles. The building has a T-plan layout, with the main block consisting of two storeys and the east block having one storey and attics.
On the north elevation, which faces the road, the right gable has one sash window on both the ground and first floors, each with moulded flush frames and glazing bars. The left block features one single light and one two-light casement on the ground floor, along with a sash window in a gabled dormer in the attic. There is a lean-to porch at the angle of the building, which has a six-panel door beneath a flat bracketed hood.
The west elevation has two flush sash windows with glazing bars flanking small single lights on the ground floor. The main block includes a central ridge stack with rebuilt diagonal shafts and an external brick stack at the south end. The east block has an integral brick stack at the gable end. Inside, the main block has a dressed stone chimney-breast on the ground floor, and the first-floor room features imported panelling, primarily in linenfold style, along with some Jacobean panels.
Local climate
Church 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 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2002
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