251, Old Harrowden Road is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 July 1964. House. 4 related planning applications.

251, Old Harrowden Road

WRENN ID
brooding-niche-wind
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bedford
Constituency
North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
13 July 1964
Type
House
Address
251, Old Harrowden Road, Shortstown, MK42 0TB
OS grid reference
TL 072 473
Coordinates
52.11418, -0.4353
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a 17th-century house located on Old Harrowden Road in Eastcotts. Originally a single property, it was later subdivided into two dwellings. The house is timber-framed with red brick infill on the east-facing elevation, and pebbledash render elsewhere. It has a clay tile roof and an L-shaped plan, with a projection to the rear of the main block. The front elevation features three two-light casement windows on the ground floor, and two three-light and one two-light casement windows on the first floor. The front door to No. 251 is centrally located, in line with a rebuilt red brick ridge stack. The section that was formerly No. 252 has a front door on the left-hand gable, with a 20th-century gabled brick porch. An external red brick stack is located on the west elevation of the cross-wing.

Local climate

251, Old Harrowden Road 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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  • Sale history — 3 transactions since 1997
  • Related listed building consents — 4 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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