55, Church End is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 August 1979. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
55, Church End
- WRENN ID
- former-gallery-mallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 August 1979
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 55, Church End, Biddenham, MK40 4AS
- OS grid reference
- TL 014 498
- Coordinates
- 52.13789, -0.51921
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
55 Church End is a late 17th century or early 18th century two-storey timber-framed cottage with three bays. The walls are rendered and painted, topped with a thatched roof. There is a late 18th century external brick chimney stack, along with an earlier rendered chimney stack with later capping located in the left-hand gable end above a one-storey extension. The cottage features three first-floor two-light casement windows, two ground-floor casements, and a plain central doorway.
Local climate
55, Church End 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2022
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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