253 and 254, Old Harrowden Road is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 July 1964. House. 1 related planning application.
253 and 254, Old Harrowden Road
- WRENN ID
- first-basalt-finch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 July 1964
- Type
- House
- Address
- 253 and 254, Old Harrowden Road, Shortstown, MK42 0TB
- OS grid reference
- TL 072 473
- Coordinates
- 52.11407, -0.43585
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos. 253 and 254 on Old Harrowden Road are 17th-century houses featuring a timber frame with pebbledash render and an old clay tile roof. The buildings are arranged in an L-plan, standing two storeys high with attics, and include a one-storey block to the west.
The front elevation of the main block has two two-light casement windows on both the ground and first floors, an additional single-light casement on the first floor, and a hipped dormer with a two-light casement in the attic. The lower block mirrors this with similar casements and includes one gabled dormer in the attic. The main block has a plain door, while the lower block features a plank door. The roof of the main block is half-hipped to the east, with a red brick integral stack on the east elevation and an external red brick multiple stack at the junction with the lower block to the west.
Local climate
253 and 254, Old Harrowden 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 96% 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 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% 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 — 1 transaction since 2003
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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