Shires House at Bedford Health Village is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 May 1971. Hospital. 7 related planning applications.
Shires House at Bedford Health Village
- WRENN ID
- deep-mortar-wren
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- Bedford MP: Mohammad Yasin (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 May 1971
- Type
- Hospital
- Address
- Shires House at Bedford Health Village, Kimbolton Road, MK40 2NT
- OS grid reference
- TL 055 503
- Coordinates
- 52.1416, -0.45914
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Shires House, now located within Bedford Health Village, is a late 18th-century building designed in 1796 by John Wing. Constructed of red brick with a tiled roof, it is three storeys high and features hipped dormers in the attic. The building has a recessed central section with a fenestration pattern of 2:7:2 sashes, each window set in a reveal and topped with a cutter flat arch. A central arched entrance is adorned with an ornamental fanlight and a surround of Doric pilasters, finished with a small cornice.
Local climate
Shires House at Bedford Health Village 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 — 6 transactions since 2001
- 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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