9, Park Road is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 July 1964. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
9, Park Road
- WRENN ID
- rooted-postern-bistre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 July 1964
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 9, Park Road, Melchbourne and Yielden, MK44 1BD
- OS grid reference
- TL 028 654
- Coordinates
- 52.27737, -0.49427
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 9 Park Road is a 17th-century cottage that was formerly divided into two separate homes. It features a timber frame with colour washed plaster and a thatched roof. The building has a two-bay plan and stands two storeys high with attics. A central red brick ridge stack has four linked flues, complete with a string course and cornice. There are two 2-light casement windows on both floors, all fitted with leaded lights. The cottage has a central paired doorway and a 20th-century lean-to extension at the rear.
Local climate
9, Park 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 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% 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 — 2 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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