House on North Side of Square is a Grade II* listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 June 1952. A C18 House.
House on North Side of Square
- WRENN ID
- seventh-trefoil-equinox
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- Bedford MP: Mohammad Yasin (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 June 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- House on North Side of Square, Saint Mary's Square
- OS grid reference
- TL 050 494
- Coordinates
- 52.13294, -0.46609
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This house, located on the north side of Saint Mary's Square, dates from around 1707. It is constructed of red brick and features an old tile roof with a modillion cornice, a parapet, and a pediment that contains a dummy lunette. The building has three storeys with a slight central projection and a symmetrical arrangement of windows, consisting of two sets of two sashes in reveals. There are bands at the floor levels. The entrance features a four-fielded, two-flush panel door with a finely glazed fanlight, surrounded by fluted Roman Doric pilasters and a fully detailed entablature topped with an open pediment.
Local climate
House on North Side of Square 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 95% 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 54% 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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