The Old Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. Farmhouse.
The Old Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- idle-hinge-hawthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- The Old Farmhouse, Herne Poplar Farm, Park Road, Toddington, LU5 6HG
- OS grid reference
- SP 998 288
- Coordinates
- 51.94895, -0.54846
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Farmhouse, formerly known as Herne Poplar Farmhouse, is a 17th-century building located on the south side of Park Road in Toddington. It features a roughcast exterior and stands two storeys tall beneath an old clay tile roof that is half-hipped to the left. The façade includes three casement windows and two canted bay windows on the ground floor.
Local climate
The Old Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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 1995
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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