19, Main Road is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1987. Cottage.
19, Main Road
- WRENN ID
- ancient-balcony-cedar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 19, Main Road, Biddenham
- OS grid reference
- TL 024 498
- Coordinates
- 52.13782, -0.5047
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 19 on Main Road is a 17th-century cottage that has modern extensions. It features colourwashed plaster over limestone and a thatched roof. The original part of the cottage is one storey with attics and has a three-room layout, with a central double-sided chimney. There is one eyebrow dormer with two leaded lights and two ground floor casement windows, each with three leaded lights. Additional dormers are present on the rear slope. At the east end, there is a modern two-storey crosswing.
Local climate
19, 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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