Market House is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 May 1952. Market building.
Market House
- WRENN ID
- final-sentry-autumn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 May 1952
- Type
- Market building
- Address
- Market House, the Green, Harrold
- OS grid reference
- SP 950 567
- Coordinates
- 52.2011, -0.60999
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Market House is a late 17th century or 18th century market building located in Harrold. It features an open octagonal shelter topped with a conical tiled roof that rests on an entablature supported by simplified Doric wooden posts, with stone bases. At the top, there is an octagonal cupola adorned with miniature columns and an entablature, which has a flatter pitched conical lead roof crowned by a wrought iron weather-vane.
Local climate
Market House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% 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 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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