The Mansion is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 July 1964. House. 2 related planning applications.

The Mansion

WRENN ID
last-steeple-ivy
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bedford
Constituency
North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
13 July 1964
Type
House
Address
The Mansion, High Street, Harrold, MK43 7BJ
OS grid reference
SP 947 570
Coordinates
52.20312, -0.61521
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Mansion is a house dating to 1619, though it was restored and refaced in the 19th century. It is constructed of coursed limestone rubble with an old clay tile roof and stone gable coping. The building is arranged around an E-shaped plan and has ashlar quoins. The fenestration consists of two storeys of 1:2:1 casements, with drip moulds to the windows in the gable ends. A stone band separates the floors, and the ground floor mirrors the upper floor's window arrangement. A porch wing features a small arched first-floor window and a ground-floor arched doorway, also with a drip mould. A date of 1619 is visible on the central chimney stack.

Local climate

The Mansion 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 92% 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 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% 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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  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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