48, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1987. House. 6 related planning applications.
48, High Street
- WRENN ID
- forgotten-cornice-bittern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- 48, High Street, Harrold, MK43 7DA
- OS grid reference
- SP 952 568
- Coordinates
- 52.20163, -0.6074
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 48 on High Street is an 18th-century house constructed of coursed limestone rubble, finished with lime and colorwash. The building stands two storeys tall, featuring a thatched roof on the main house, while a later extension on the right has a pantiled roof. The first floor includes three casement windows with glazing bars. On the ground floor, there is a three-light 19th-century casement window on the left, a central fixed window with very small panes, and a 20th-century window on the right. The entrance features a four-panel door with a ribbed surround and a decorated pediment.
Local climate
48, High Street sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 6 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- 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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