37-41, Main Road is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1987. House. 7 related planning applications.
37-41, Main Road
- WRENN ID
- buried-lancet-starling
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- 37-41, Main Road, Biddenham, MK40 4BD
- OS grid reference
- TL 023 499
- Coordinates
- 52.1381, -0.50649
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a house dating from the 17th or 18th century, which has been altered and extended over time. The external appearance varies; some sections are colourwashed plaster over limestone rubble, while others are timber-framed with thatch. Number 37 is a single storey with attic space, and has modern flat-roofed extensions to the rear, along with modern casement windows. Numbers 39 and 41 are taller, featuring a large red brick stack on the left-hand side and a section that projects forward on the right-hand side. There is one eyebrow dormer window with a two-light casement. The ground floor has two casement windows, and a modern porch is present.
Local climate
37-41, Main 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 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.
- Sale history — 9 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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