255, 256 and 257, Old Harrowden Road is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 July 1964. Cottage.

255, 256 and 257, Old Harrowden Road

WRENN ID
eternal-niche-yarrow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bedford
Constituency
North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
13 July 1964
Type
Cottage
Address
255, 256 and 257, Old Harrowden Road, Shortstown, MK42 0TB
OS grid reference
TL 071 473
Coordinates
52.11384, -0.43666
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Nos. 255, 256, and 257 on Old Harrowden Road are three cottages that may have originally been one house, dating from the 18th century. They feature a pebbledash render over a timber frame and have a hipped roof covered with old clay tiles. The cottages have a three- or four-room layout and are two storeys high. On the ground floor, there are two three-light and one two-light casement windows, while the first floor has four two-light casement windows, all with glazing bars. The cottages have three plank doors, with No. 255 featuring a wooden open gabled porch. There is a red brick multiple ridge stack on the right side and a red brick external stack on the west side. Additionally, there are weatherboarded and tiled single-storey additions to the east.

Local climate

255, 256 and 257, Old Harrowden Road 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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