The Gardens is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 August 1983. Cottage.
The Gardens
- WRENN ID
- riven-span-alder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 August 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Gardens, 13, Silver Street, Great Barford
- OS grid reference
- TL 129 520
- Coordinates
- 52.15518, -0.34975
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Gardens is a 17th-century cottage located on Silver Street in Great Barford. The building features colour-washed rough cast over a timber frame and has a thatched roof. It has a three-bay plan and stands two storeys tall. On the ground floor, there is one two-light horizontal sash window with glazing bars and one 20th-century three-light casement window. The first floor includes two casement windows and another two-light horizontal sash window with glazing bars. A 20th-century sloping roofed porch and door align with the central red brick double ridge stack.
Local climate
The Gardens 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 98% 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, fewer than 53% 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 0.4°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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