Crofton Rooms is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 June 1952. Rooms.
Crofton Rooms
- WRENN ID
- rusted-rafter-tarn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- Bedford MP: Mohammad Yasin (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 June 1952
- Type
- Rooms
- Address
- Crofton Rooms, 27, Saint Cuthbert's Street
- OS grid reference
- TL 052 500
- Coordinates
- 52.13863, -0.46287
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Crofton Rooms, located at 27 Saint Cuthbert's Street, is an 18th-century building. It features a cement plinth and is constructed of red brick with an old tile roof that has a modillion cornice and a parapet. The building has two storeys and attics, with a central pediment that includes a lunette in the tympanum and two hipped dormers. The façade consists of a symmetrical arrangement of windows: two, one, and two sashes, all with flat arches. There is a slight central projection. The entrance boasts a four-fielded, two-flush panel door with a fanlight, surrounded by ribbed pilasters and consoles, topped with an open pediment that has a round arch and a mask keyblock.
Local climate
Crofton Rooms 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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