46 and 48, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1987. House.
46 and 48, High Street
- WRENN ID
- tenth-string-amber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- 46 and 48, High Street, Stagsden, MK43 8SQ
- OS grid reference
- SP 981 489
- Coordinates
- 52.1298, -0.56761
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos. 46 and 48 on High Street are two houses located in Stagsden. The western part of the building dates from the late 17th century or early 18th century and features colourwashed roughcast with a thatched roof. It is one storey high with attics and has three eyebrow dormers, each containing 2-light casements with leaded panes. The ground floor has three modern casements and a small gabled hood on cut brackets above the modern front door. The eastern part of the building is from the late 18th century and is constructed of coursed limestone rubble with an old clay tile roof. This section is two storeys tall and has a single-storey outhouse attached to the right side. There are two first-floor casements, with the right-hand one being leaded, and a small ground floor casement.
Local climate
46 and 48, High Street sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2011
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