Town Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 June 1952. Town hall. 12 related planning applications.
Town Hall
- WRENN ID
- guardian-chancel-wren
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- Bedford MP: Mohammad Yasin (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 June 1952
- Type
- Town hall
- Address
- Town Hall, Saint Paul's Square, MK40 1SJ
- OS grid reference
- TL 049 496
- Coordinates
- 52.13543, -0.46846
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Town Hall, located at Saint Paul's Square, is a Grade II listed building that was originally a Tudor structure. It was refaced in 1767 by Isaac Clayson, with further modifications made in 1861. The building is constructed of ashlar stone and features a cornice and parapet. It has a slight central projection topped with a pediment. The Town Hall is two storeys high and has a window arrangement of 1: 2: 1, all set within architraves. The central entrance door is also framed by an architrave and topped with a pediment. Above the door, there is a semi-circular round arched niche that houses a statue of Sir William Harpur, created by Benjamin Palmer in 1767. Sir William Harpur was a benefactor of the Grammar School that previously occupied the building.
Local climate
Town Hall 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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- Related listed building consents — 12 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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