20-23, Gold Street is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1987. Houses. 3 related planning applications.
20-23, Gold Street
- WRENN ID
- knotted-lantern-crow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1987
- Type
- Houses
- Address
- 20-23, Gold Street, Podington, NN29 7HX
- OS grid reference
- SP 941 626
- Coordinates
- 52.25391, -0.6229
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a 17th-century terrace of four houses located on Gold Street, Podington. The houses are constructed of roughly shaped limestone rubble, with a thatched roof featuring stone-coped gables. The building is two storeys high with attics, and includes a single eyebrow dormer. Each house has five casement windows on each floor, with glazing bars. Number 23 has a lattice-style casement window on the first floor. All windows are topped with timber lintels.
Local climate
20-23, Gold Street 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 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 2002
- 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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