95 and 97, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1984. House. 3 related planning applications.
95 and 97, High Street
- WRENN ID
- fading-chapel-candle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- Bedford MP: Mohammad Yasin (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 May 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- 95 and 97, High Street, Kempston, MK42 7BS
- OS grid reference
- TL 025 473
- Coordinates
- 52.11521, -0.50356
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos. 95 and 97 High Street is an 18th-century house that has been converted into a shop on the ground floor. The main section of the building is constructed from colourwashed coursed rubble and features a clay tile roof. To the left, there is a timber-framed block with colourwashed brick infill and a pantile roof. Each block has a two-bay plan and is two storeys tall, with the left block being slightly lower. The left block includes a carriage entrance and a 20th-century shop window. The main block has a three-light window on the ground floor and two five-light casements on the first floor. There are part-glazed double doors on the left and a glazed door on the right. A red brick ridge stack is present on the roof.
Local climate
95 and 97, High Street 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1997
- 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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