48 and 50, Main Road is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1987. House. 3 related planning applications.
48 and 50, Main Road
- WRENN ID
- haunted-stair-lichen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- 48 and 50, Main Road, Biddenham, MK40 4BE
- OS grid reference
- TL 020 500
- Coordinates
- 52.13898, -0.51069
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 48 and 50 on Main Road are houses that date back to the 17th or 18th century and were renovated in the 19th century. They feature colour washed plaster over rubble and a thatched roof. The buildings have a four-room plan arranged as two cottages, with the left-hand cottage having a tiled brick rear extension. They are one storey high with attics and have hipped roofs at the gable ends. There are four steeply gabled dormers from the 19th century, which have prominent barge boards; three of these dormers have lattice iron casements, while one features diamond leading. On the ground floor, there are four casements with glazing bars, all of which are two-light.
Local climate
48 and 50, 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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