Bunyan's Mead is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 July 1964. Row of houses. 1 related planning application.
Bunyan's Mead
- WRENN ID
- tangled-ember-hawthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 July 1964
- Type
- Row of houses
- Address
- Bunyan's Mead, 12-17, High Street, Elstow, MK42 9XY
- OS grid reference
- TL 050 474
- Coordinates
- 52.11581, -0.46782
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A row of houses located on Elstow High Street, dating back to the 16th century or earlier, with subsequent work in the 17th and 18th centuries, and restoration in 1976-77. The houses are timber-framed, mostly with colourwashed plaster infill, though number 16 is weatherboarded. They have clay tile roofs. Three properties form a two-storey row facing the road, with numbers 12 and 14 forming a one-storey and attics block that projects to the north. Rooflines and frontages vary slightly. Number 15 exhibits the most substantial and earliest timbering, featuring a jettied first floor supported by 18th-century brackets. Windows are mainly 20th-century casements with glazing bars, although number 16 retains some original casements with leaded lights. The front doors are 20th-century replacements. A rebuilt brick ridge stack is located on number 16. The north elevation of numbers 12 and 14 has lighter timbering, with 20th-century doors and windows, and three gabled dormers. Two rebuilt red brick ridge stacks are also present.
Local climate
Bunyan's Mead 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 — 10 transactions since 1999
- 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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