Bedford School Preparatory School is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 May 1971. School.
Bedford School Preparatory School
- WRENN ID
- stranded-lancet-jackdaw
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- Bedford MP: Mohammad Yasin (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 May 1971
- Type
- School
- OS grid reference
- TL 051 500
- Coordinates
- 52.13916, -0.46547
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bedford School Preparatory School was built in 1900 by Henry Young in a Neo-Tudor and Jacobean style. The building is constructed of red brick with stone dressings and features a tiled roof with four gables. It has two storeys and includes a plinth, floor, and sill bands. The windows are characterized by four stone mullion and transom three-light casements.
Local climate
Bedford School Preparatory School 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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