Froghall Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 May 1985. Farmhouse.
Froghall Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- quiet-rotunda-blackthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 May 1985
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Froghall Farmhouse, Ampthill Road, Steppingley
- OS grid reference
- TL 024 360
- Coordinates
- 52.0138, -0.50869
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Froghall Farmhouse is a house dating from the 17th century, with alterations made in the 19th century. It features a timber framed construction with red brick infill and a clay tile roof that has deep verges on both gables. The left-hand gable end is adorned with fishscale tiles on the first floor. The house has a two-room plan and is two storeys high with attics. On the ground floor, there are two 2-light casement windows and one sash window. The first floor has two 2-light windows on either side of a single light window. The attic includes two gabled dormers, also with deep verges, featuring 2-light casements. There is a plank door aligned with a double ridge stack, with the upper part rebuilt in yellow brick. All gables have plain bargeboards.
Local climate
Froghall 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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 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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