Whitbread Almshouses is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 May 1952. Almshouse. 3 related planning applications.
Whitbread Almshouses
- WRENN ID
- waning-sill-laurel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 May 1952
- Type
- Almshouse
- Address
- Whitbread Almshouses, the Green, Cardington, MK44 3TE
- OS grid reference
- TL 086 478
- Coordinates
- 52.11824, -0.41391
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Whitbread Almshouses are a pair of almshouses built in 1787 for Samuel Whitbread. They are constructed of red brick with an old clay tile roof. Originally, there were two separate blocks of cottages, each with a two-room layout, but they have been connected by a lower block added in the late 19th century, which is similar in style to the original buildings. The almshouses are two storeys high. The original blocks feature two-light casements with leaded lights, with the ground floor windows set under cambered heads. The doors on the left-hand block are replacements from the 20th century, while the right-hand block has 20th-century gabled brick and tile porches. The gables have brick coping, and there are two red brick ridge stacks along with one gable end stack made of red brick on the left-hand block. The side elevations are adorned with brick bands at the eaves level.
Local climate
Whitbread Almshouses 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 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% 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 — 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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