28-32, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 October 1977. Cottages. 6 related planning applications.
28-32, High Street
- WRENN ID
- shifting-zinc-twilight
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 October 1977
- Type
- Cottages
- Address
- 28-32, High Street, Sharnbrook, MK44 1PF
- OS grid reference
- SP 996 595
- Coordinates
- 52.22517, -0.54239
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an 18th century or earlier range of cottages located on the south-west side of High Street, Sharnbrook. The cottages are constructed from colourwashed limestone rubble with a thatched roof. They are one storey high with attics. Numbers 28 and 30 contain raised cruck trusses. The cottages have casement windows, and numbers 28 and 30 have two dormers at eaves level. Number 32 is similar in appearance, but with some timber framing visible above a stone lower wall, and features three dormers at eaves. Number 32 may have originally been a barn.
Local climate
28-32, 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 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, more than 50% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 13 transactions since 1997
- 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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