37, 39 and 41 High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 May 1971. Commercial building.

37, 39 and 41 High Street

WRENN ID
winter-sandstone-jackdaw
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bedford
Constituency
Bedford MP: Mohammad Yasin (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 May 1971
Type
Commercial building
Address
37, 39 and 41 High Street, MK40 1RY
OS grid reference
TL 050 497
Coordinates
52.13593, -0.46623
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

37, 39 and 41 High Street are three commercial buildings that were refronted around 1790 and altered around 1995. They are three-and-a-half storeys tall and six bays wide, facing west towards High Street, with long extensions to the rear. The buildings have a shared gambrel roof covered in Welsh slate, featuring three dormers with late-20th century casements concealed behind a low parapet wall. Number 41 has a red brick chimneystack on its north gable. The brick walls of the first and second floors, which were refronted around 1790, are laid in Flemish bond and painted. The six bays of windows have flat arches with shallow-projecting keystones on their stone lintels and stone sills. The second floor windows are three-over-three timber sashes, while the first floor windows are six-over-six timber sashes, both with horns. The ground floor shopfronts were replaced around 1995.

Local climate

37, 39 and 41 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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