174, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 July 1964. House. 1 related planning application.
174, High Street
- WRENN ID
- spare-groin-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 July 1964
- Type
- House
- Address
- 174, High Street, Elstow, MK42 9YA
- OS grid reference
- TL 049 475
- Coordinates
- 52.11639, -0.46848
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 174 High Street is a house dating from the 16th century. It features a timber frame, with parts rendered in roughcast and others in pebbledash, topped by a clay tile roof. The building has a three-room plan and stands two storeys high, with a jettied first floor. At the rear, there is a two-storey block that projects outwards. On the ground floor, there are two three-light casement windows and one single fixed light. The first floor has three three-light casement windows. The central front door consists of six flush panels. The jettied section, which begins at a slightly higher level on the southern bay, has moulded soffits supported by three brackets. The eaves are sprocketed, and there is a rebuilt red brick integral stack on the northern gable end.
Local climate
174, High Street 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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- Radon risk assessment
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