Highbarn House is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 June 1974. House. 6 related planning applications.
Highbarn House
- WRENN ID
- deep-niche-amber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 June 1974
- Type
- House
- Address
- Highbarn House, 39, High Street, Riseley, MK44 1DX
- OS grid reference
- TL 038 626
- Coordinates
- 52.25201, -0.48017
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Highbarn House is a 17th-century house located on the north-west side of Riseley High Street. It is timber-framed, with the ground floor rendered in colour-washed rough cast and the first floor with colour-washed plaster infill. The roof is thatched. The house has a T-plan, two storeys high. The front elevation features two early 19th-century canted bays on either side of a 20th-century casement window on the ground floor. Two three-light casement windows are present on the first floor. The southwest elevation has 20th-century windows and a doorway on the ground floor, and four two-light horizontal sash windows with glazing bars on the first floor. Red brick external gable end stacks are visible on both wings. A two-storey gabled addition of 20th-century construction extends from the northeast elevation.
Local climate
Highbarn House 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 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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