52 and 54, Silver Street is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 August 1983. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
52 and 54, Silver Street
- WRENN ID
- waning-span-root
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 August 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 52 and 54, Silver Street, Great Barford, MK44 3JA
- OS grid reference
- TL 127 522
- Coordinates
- 52.15676, -0.35284
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos. 52 and 54 Silver Street are a pair of cottages dating from the 18th century. They are constructed of colour-washed brick and rough cast, topped with thatched roofs. Each cottage has a one-room plan, is one storey high with attics, and features two 20th-century casement windows on the ground floor. Above, there are two eyebrow dormers that contain two-light horizontal sashes with glazing bars.
No. 52 includes a tiled gabled open porch with a plank door, while No. 54 has a thatched hipped open porch with a four-panel door. A red brick ridge stack is located at the division between the two cottages. Both cottages have single-bay, two-storey 20th-century extensions at their gable ends, and No. 54 also features a flat-roofed single-storey extension that projects forward.
Local climate
52 and 54, Silver 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 97% 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 52% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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