St Etheldreda's Children's Home is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 May 1971. Children's home. 1 related planning application.
St Etheldreda's Children's Home
- WRENN ID
- muted-baluster-aspen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- Bedford MP: Mohammad Yasin (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 May 1971
- Type
- Children's home
- Address
- St Etheldreda's Children's Home, 9, Bromham Road, MK40 2BP
- OS grid reference
- TL 045 501
- Coordinates
- 52.13973, -0.47356
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
St Etheldreda's Children's Home, located at 9 Bromham Road, was built around 1830. The building is constructed of ashlar and features a hipped Welsh slate roof. It stands three stories tall with a rusticated ground floor, cornice, and floor bands. There are ten sash windows set in reveals, with some on the ground floor lacking glazing bars. The entrance is accentuated by two Roman Doric porches.
Local climate
St Etheldreda's Children's Home 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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