49-53, Main Road is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1987. Cottage. 4 related planning applications.
49-53, Main Road
- WRENN ID
- secret-soffit-barley
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 49-53, Main Road, Biddenham
- OS grid reference
- TL 022 499
- Coordinates
- 52.13831, -0.5079
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a cottage dating from the 17th or 18th century. It is built of limestone rubble, with No. 49 having a thatched roof and No. 51 a modern tile roof. A brick extension is located at the road end. The building has a T-plan layout, with a small two-storey gable featuring an old clay tile roof projecting to the east. The gable end of No. 49 has two two-light casement windows with glazing bars on the first floor, and a large fixed window in a moulded frame on the ground floor.
Local climate
49-53, 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 7 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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