Pleasant Place is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 May 1971. House. 2 related planning applications.

Pleasant Place

WRENN ID
carved-gutter-peregrine
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bedford
Constituency
Bedford MP: Mohammad Yasin (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 May 1971
Type
House
Address
Pleasant Place, 131 and 133, Tavistock Street, MK40 2RB
OS grid reference
TL 045 503
Coordinates
52.14183, -0.47331
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Pleasant Place is a pair of red brick houses, dating from the 18th century or early 19th century, located at 131 and 133 Tavistock Street. The buildings have an old tile roof and are two storeys tall with an attic. They feature a corbelled cornice, two box dormers, and two sash windows set in reveals beneath flat arches. There are also two dummy windows on the first floor. Nos 123 to 133 (odd) form a group.

Local climate

Pleasant Place 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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  • Sale history — 3 transactions since 2013
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  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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