53, Woodhouse Lane is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 August 1983. Cottage. 6 related planning applications.
53, Woodhouse Lane
- WRENN ID
- graven-iron-fen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 August 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 53, Woodhouse Lane, Staploe, PE19 5HR
- OS grid reference
- TL 157 607
- Coordinates
- 52.23306, -0.30682
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 53 is a cottage dating from the 18th century. It features colour washed rough cast and some brick over a timber frame, topped with a thatched roof. The building has a two-room plan and is one storey with attics. On the east elevation, there are two 2-light horizontal sash windows and an off-centre plank door located beneath a gabled thatched hood. There is a red brick integral stack on the south gable end. To the south, there is a one-storey addition that is rough cast and tiled, which also includes a 2-light horizontal sash window. Additionally, there is a 20th-century garage addition on the north gable end.
Local climate
53, Woodhouse Lane 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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