Bier House at No 1 is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 April 1975. Bier house.
Bier House at No 1
- WRENN ID
- buried-cobalt-barley
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 April 1975
- Type
- Bier house
- Address
- Bier House at No 1, Willington Road, Cople
- OS grid reference
- TL 103 485
- Coordinates
- 52.12402, -0.3895
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building is a former bier house located at No. 1 on Willington Road, dating from the 19th century. It features a timber-framed structure with red brick infill, and the upper section is designed in a herring-bone pattern. The roof is covered with clay tiles. The gable end facing the road has Tudor style wooden double doors, while the rear gable includes a three-light window with leaded diamond panes. Both gables have plain bargeboards, and instead of finials, there are wooden crosses.
Local climate
Bier House at No 1 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 96% 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 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% 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 0.3°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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