46, Cardington Road is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 June 1952. House.
46, Cardington Road
- WRENN ID
- under-lantern-elm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- Bedford MP: Mohammad Yasin (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 June 1952
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- TL 053 493
- Coordinates
- 52.13274, -0.46212
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
46 Cardington Road is a building dating from around 1809, designed by the architect Wing of Bedford. It features an ashlar front with in-and-out quoins and a Welsh slate roof that includes three box dormers. The structure is two storeys tall with an attic.
On the ground floor, there is a central Roman Doric porch that encloses a flight of steps leading up to the door, flanked by two three-light stone mullion sash windows. The door is framed by an architrave with consoles, an entablature, and a pediment. The first floor has three sash windows set in reveals, with a central architrave above. The building is topped with a modillion cornice.
Local climate
46, Cardington 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 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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