42, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1987. House, former inn. 4 related planning applications.
42, High Street
- WRENN ID
- spare-landing-autumn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1987
- Type
- House, former inn
- Address
- 42, High Street, Sharnbrook, MK44 1PF
- OS grid reference
- SP 995 596
- Coordinates
- 52.22565, -0.54354
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 42 High Street is a house that was formerly an inn, consisting of two buildings that have both been modernised. The south-east part of the structure has origins dating back to the 17th century and is built from limestone rubble with some plastered timber framing. It features pantiles with two lines of slates at the eaves, and it is one storey high with attics, arranged in a two-room plan. There is a modern extension at the rear. The front elevation includes two dormers that rise above the eaves line, and the ground floor has two windows, one of which is a square bay with sash windows.
The north-west building was a former 19th-century inn, rendered with cement quoins and topped with an old tile roof. This part has a double pile plan, with the rear section having a slate roof. It stands two storeys high with attics, featuring a ground floor bay and a gabled attic dormer.
Local climate
42, High Street 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 97% 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 50% 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 — 1 transaction since 2015
- 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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