Pleasant Place is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 May 1971. Terrace house. 5 related planning applications.
Pleasant Place
- WRENN ID
- turning-storey-aspen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- Bedford MP: Mohammad Yasin (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 May 1971
- Type
- Terrace house
- Address
- Pleasant Place, 123-129, Tavistock Street, MK40 2SB
- OS grid reference
- TL 045 503
- Coordinates
- 52.14177, -0.47321
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Pleasant Place is an 1825 red brick terrace forming a group with numbers 123 to 133. It has a low-pitched Welsh slate hipped roof and a basement. The terrace is three storeys high, with four sash windows on each level, featuring cutter flat arches within the reveals. A central stone panel is flush with the facade and carved with the name "Pleasant Place" and the date 1825. Stone steps lead up to round arched doorways, each topped with an ornamental fanlight. Original cast iron railings are present.
Local climate
Pleasant Place 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 13 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- 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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