325, Church Lane is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 July 1964. Almshouses.
325, Church Lane
- WRENN ID
- muffled-timber-fen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 July 1964
- Type
- Almshouses
- Address
- 325, Church Lane, Cardington
- OS grid reference
- TL 086 479
- Coordinates
- 52.11917, -0.4142
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 325 on Church Lane is a house that was originally a pair of almshouses. It features a circular plaque that reads "J.H, 1762, restored S.H.W. 1928," which refers to John Howard and Samuel Howard Whitbread. The building has a colour-washed roughcast exterior over a timber frame, resting on a high red brick plinth, and is topped with an old clay tile roof. Each of the two cottages has a one-room plan and stands two storeys tall. There are two three-light casements with leaded lights on each floor, and two plank doors with moulded surrounds positioned in the center. A red brick double ridge stack is present, and there are 18th-century wrought iron railings and a gate leading to the front garden, similar to those found at Howard's house.
Local climate
325, Church Lane 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 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% 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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