173, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 July 1964. A C17 House. 3 related planning applications.
173, High Street
- WRENN ID
- gilded-keystone-pearl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 July 1964
- Type
- House
- Address
- 173, High Street, Elstow, MK42 9XP
- OS grid reference
- TL 049 476
- Coordinates
- 52.11703, -0.46893
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 173 on High Street is a 17th-century house featuring pebbledash render over a timber frame and a clay tile roof. The building has a two-room plan and stands two stories tall, with a lower roofline on the southern bay. Each floor has two three-light casement windows with glazing bars. There is a part-glazed door set in a moulded surround. A red brick integral stack is located at the northern gable end, and there is a single-storey pantiled addition on the northern gable end.
Local climate
173, 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 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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