49, 49A, 51 AND 51A, HARPER STREET (See details for further address information) is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 May 1971. Commercial. 3 related planning applications.

49, 49A, 51 AND 51A, HARPER STREET (See details for further address information)

WRENN ID
stark-span-crag
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bedford
Constituency
Bedford MP: Mohammad Yasin (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 May 1971
Type
Commercial
OS grid reference
TL 049 500
Coordinates
52.13879, -0.46847
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a row of 45 properties, numbered 1 to 45, on the odd-numbered side of Dame Alice Street and extending to Harper Street. The buildings date to 1801 and 1806 and are built in a Neo-Tudor style. They are constructed of red brick with brick coped gables and brick chimney stacks featuring four shafts, linked by moulded bases and caps. The facades feature two-light lattice casement windows beneath drip-moulds, and stepped drip-moulds above arched doorways. The buildings at numbers 49, 49A, 51, and 51A Harper Street are also included in this listing.

Local climate

49, 49A, 51 AND 51A, HARPER STREET (See details for further address information) 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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