Bier House is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 August 1983. Bier house.
Bier House
- WRENN ID
- quartered-transept-river
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 August 1983
- Type
- Bier house
- Address
- Bier House, Church Road, Bolnhurst and Keysoe
- OS grid reference
- TL 074 624
- Coordinates
- 52.24983, -0.4278
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Bier House, associated with St Mary's Church, dates from the mid-19th century. It is constructed of red brick and features a pantiled roof. The building is small and rectangular in shape. On the northwest gable end, there are double doors set back under a porch with an elliptical archway. The southeast gable end has a 20th-century casement window. The northeast side elevation includes five recessed bays and a moulded brick cornice, with brick coping on the gable ends.
Local climate
Bier House 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 97% 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 52% 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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