4-14, The Crescent is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 June 1952. Terraced houses. 12 related planning applications.
4-14, The Crescent
- WRENN ID
- sharp-terrace-cream
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- Bedford MP: Mohammad Yasin (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 June 1952
- Type
- Terraced houses
- OS grid reference
- TL 046 502
- Coordinates
- 52.14067, -0.4729
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Crescent, numbers 4 to 14, is a group of three pairs of red brick houses built in 1825. They have Welsh slate roofs and parapets. Each house has three first-floor and two ground-floor windows, each a three-light wooden mullion double-hung sash with flat rubber-backed arches. Trellis porches with concave hipped roofs and round arched doorways are present. The first-floor windows have cast iron "Gothic" balconettes. Number 10 has been altered, with the removal of glazing bars and the trelliswork from its porch. The central pair of houses features a pediment with a flush stone panel inscribed "Crescent 1825" within the tympanum. Stone copings and brick cornice details adorn the pediment and roof parapets. All doors feature ribbed surrounds, two fielded panels, a single glass panel, and a fanlight. Numbers 2 to 14 (even), and numbers 15 to 19 (odd) form a group.
Local climate
4-14, The Crescent 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 — 13 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 12 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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