Kimbolton Lodge is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 May 1971. Villa. 2 related planning applications.
Kimbolton Lodge
- WRENN ID
- guardian-sandstone-jet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- Bedford MP: Mohammad Yasin (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 May 1971
- Type
- Villa
- Address
- Kimbolton Lodge, 1, Kimbolton Road, MK40 2NT
- OS grid reference
- TL 053 502
- Coordinates
- 52.1406, -0.46147
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Kimbolton Lodge is an early 19th-century Neo-Classical villa located on Kimbolton Road. The building is constructed of yellow brick with stucco dressings and features a low-pitched Welsh slate roof that has a pair of bracketed gables. It stands two storeys tall with a recessed centre that includes a ground floor portico in antis supported by composite pillars and pilasters. The villa has three sash windows, with the ground floor windows being three-light and adorned with pilasters, entablatures, and consoles to the cornices. The first floor windows have architrave surrounds and pediments on consoles for the outer pair. There is also a lower back wing.
Local climate
Kimbolton Lodge 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 — 2 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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