House Opposite the Bungalow is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 August 1983. House.
House Opposite the Bungalow
- WRENN ID
- tired-gutter-vale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 August 1983
- Type
- House
- Address
- House Opposite the Bungalow, Queens Road, Colmworth
- OS grid reference
- TL 108 588
- Coordinates
- 52.21704, -0.37845
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an 18th-century house located opposite The Bungalow in Colmworth. It features a timber frame with red brick on the ground floor and the northern gable end, while the first floor is rendered. The house has an old clay tile roof and a three-room layout across two storeys. Each floor has two 2-light horizontal sash windows with glazing bars. The front door is off-centre, consisting of six panels with the top pair glazed, set in a moulded surround. Above the door is a 20th-century casement window with glazing bars. The house has red brick gable end stacks, with one stack on the south side being external. There is also a red brick lean-to addition at the rear.
Local climate
House Opposite the Bungalow 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, fewer than 52% 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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