Gannocks is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 October 1966. House.

Gannocks

WRENN ID
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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
Gannocks, 15, Church Street (Church End), Tempsford
OS grid reference
TL 162 529
Coordinates
52.16297, -0.30234
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Gannocks is a house, believed to have been an inn, dating from the 16th century with later alterations. The right-hand wing features substantial timber framing that is exposed, with colourwashed brick infilling. The rest of the building is encased in colourwashed brick and has clay tile roofs. It is a two-storey T-plan structure, with a gable projecting from the left-hand side that gives it the appearance of an H-plan.

The central block has a four-light casement window and a six-panel door on the ground floor, along with a two-light casement window on the first floor. The right-hand gable jetties at the first floor level and has ogival bracing, featuring a four-light casement on the ground floor and a three-light casement on the first floor. The left-hand gable has a brick band at the first floor level and exposed timber framing at the attic level, which is less substantial than that of the right-hand gable. The ground floor includes a canted bay with sash windows that have glazing bars, while the first floor has a three-light casement and the attic has a two-light casement. All casements have leaded lights. There are two red brick multiple ridge stacks located at the junctions with the cross-wings. A 20th-century addition to the left-hand side, made of timber frame and red brick infill, incorporates 16th-century moulded timbers from the demolished Tempsford Chantry House, which was taken down in 1939.

Local climate

Gannocks 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 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 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 0.4°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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