West End Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 July 1977. House.
West End Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- patient-cobalt-sedge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 July 1977
- Type
- House
- Address
- West End Farmhouse, West End Road, Silsoe
- OS grid reference
- TL 079 354
- Coordinates
- 52.00731, -0.4294
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
West End Farmhouse is a house dating from the late 17th century and the 19th century. It features colourwashed render that is incised to imitate ashlar, over a partly timber-framed structure. The rear block is made of brick and is partly tile-hung. The roof is covered with clay tiles and has a half-hipped design at the north end. The main block is L-shaped, with two storeys and attics, while the rear block also has two storeys.
On the east elevation, the ground floor has four sash windows with glazing bars, and the first floor has five 3-light casement windows, all from the 19th century. There is a 20th-century gabled dormer in the attic. A gabled porch aligns with a red brick multiple ridge stack, which serves two rooms on the right-hand side. On the south gable end, the ground floor features a French window with marginal glazing, situated under a trellis porch.
Local climate
West End 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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