Dairy and Laundry to Howbury Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 August 1983. Dairy and laundry block.
Dairy and Laundry to Howbury Hall
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-casement-azure
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 August 1983
- Type
- Dairy and laundry block
- Address
- Dairy and Laundry to Howbury Hall, St Neots Road, Renhold
- OS grid reference
- TL 098 517
- Coordinates
- 52.15306, -0.39581
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The dairy and laundry block at Howbury Hall dates from the early 18th century. It is constructed with a timber frame, featuring red brick infill and colour washed plaster rendering, topped by a hipped old clay tile roof. The building has a three-room plan and is one storey with attics. On the west elevation, there is one 19th-century sash window with glazing bars, along with two mullioned and transomed leaded casements on the ground floor. The roof includes two gabled dormers, each with two-light leaded casements. Additionally, there are three plank doors and a red brick ridge stack, as well as another red brick stack located at the rear.
Local climate
Dairy and Laundry to Howbury Hall 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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