The Old Boot is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 June 1974. House. 7 related planning applications.
The Old Boot
- WRENN ID
- leaning-turret-hawk
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 June 1974
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Boot, 42, High Street, Riseley, MK44 1DT
- OS grid reference
- TL 039 626
- Coordinates
- 52.25193, -0.47906
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Boot is a house dating from the 17th century and later. It features colour washed brick with a rough cast first floor on the right-hand wing, and has a 20th-century tiled roof. The building is L-shaped and has two storeys. The main wing has a two-light horizontal sash window with glazing bars on the ground floor and a two-light casement window on the first floor. There is a four-panel front door. The projecting gable includes a three-light horizontal sash window with glazing bars on the ground floor and a sash window on the first floor. The main block has a red brick gable end stack, and there is an external stack on the southwest elevation of the cross-wing.
Local climate
The Old Boot 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 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2014
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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