258 Old Harrowden Road is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1984. Cottage.

258 Old Harrowden Road

WRENN ID
muffled-banister-jay
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bedford
Constituency
North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 May 1984
Type
Cottage
Address
258 Old Harrowden Road, Shortstown, MK42 0TB
OS grid reference
TL 071 472
Coordinates
52.11358, -0.43711
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 258 Old Harrowden Road is a 18th-century cottage located on Old Harrowden Lane. The building features a timber frame with red brick facing on the south gable end and pebbledash render on the other sides. It has a clay tile roof and a two-room plan, with the gable end facing the road. The southern part of the cottage is one storey with attics, while the northern part is a one-storey elevation. The windows include one partly leaded two-light casement and one three-light casement. There is a plank door set in a moulded surround, topped with a small bracketed hood. A red brick ridge stack is located at the division between the two roof levels. The north gable end features a cast iron casement with pointed arched glazing bars.

Local climate

258 Old Harrowden Road 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 96% 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 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% 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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