1-4, Church End is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 July 1964. A C15 Range of houses.
1-4, Church End
- WRENN ID
- tilted-hearth-bracken
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 July 1964
- Type
- Range of houses
- Address
- 1-4, Church End, Kempston, Kempston Rural, MK43 8RH
- OS grid reference
- TL 015 479
- Coordinates
- 52.12048, -0.5185
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building is a range of houses located at 1-4 Church End, dated to 1485 or soon after, with later alterations. The ground floor is constructed of red brick, while the first floor is timber-framed and mainly rendered in colourwashed roughcast. The building has two storeys and attics, topped with a clay tile roof. On the south side, there are two gabled dormers. The first floor features eight casement windows with glazing bars, primarily in a three-light configuration. The ground floor has four casement windows of the same style, which have cambered relieving arches above them. There is also an elliptically headed archway on the right side that leads to the churchyard. The north elevation includes some leaded casement windows.
Local climate
1-4, 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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