62-66, Village Road is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1987. Cottage.
62-66, Village Road
- WRENN ID
- old-screen-linden
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 62-66, Village Road, Bromham
- OS grid reference
- TL 009 512
- Coordinates
- 52.15037, -0.52597
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building, located at 62-66 Village Road, is a pair of cottages dating from the 17th or 18th century. They are constructed from colour washed coursed limestone rubble and feature a thatched roof. The cottages are one storey high with attics and have a three-room layout. There are five gable end stacks and a single-sided ridge stack that heats the central room. The windows and doors have been modernized. A 19th-century steep gabled dormer with fretted bargeboards is present, along with modern extensions at the rear.
Local climate
62-66, Village 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 97% 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 50% 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 2006
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