66 and 68, Great North Road is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 August 1983. Residential.
66 and 68, Great North Road
- WRENN ID
- crooked-rotunda-crow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 August 1983
- Type
- Residential
- Address
- 66 and 68, Great North Road, Wyboston, Chawston and Colesden
- OS grid reference
- TL 164 569
- Coordinates
- 52.19823, -0.29721
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 66 and 68 on Great North Road are a 17th-century house constructed with colour washed rough cast over a timber frame, while the ground floor of the northern wing is made of colour washed brick. The building features an old clay tile roof and is designed in an L-plan, comprising one storey and attics. The northern wing has two sash windows with glazing bars on the ground floor and two box dormers, one containing a two-light casement window and the other a two-light horizontal sash window. The projecting gable on the south side has two 20th-century ground floor casement windows. There are doors on the left and center of the northern wing, with the central door featuring a gabled hood. The ridge stack has been rebuilt and consists of three joined shafts.
Local climate
66 and 68, Great North 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 98% 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, fewer than 53% 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 0.4°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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