43, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 February 1987. A C17 House, blacksmith's shop. 1 related planning application.
43, High Street
- WRENN ID
- rough-zinc-fen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 February 1987
- Type
- House, blacksmith's shop
- Address
- 43, High Street, Cranfield, MK43 0DP
- OS grid reference
- SP 953 419
- Coordinates
- 52.06757, -0.61075
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 43 High Street is a house and former blacksmith's shop dating from the 17th century and 19th century. The house features a timber frame with colourwashed plaster render, while the right-hand gable is constructed of brick. It has a thatched roof that is hipped at the left-hand end. The outbuilding, which was the former blacksmith's shop, projects from the left-hand side and is made of mottled red brick with a clay tile roof.
The house has a three-room plan and is one storey with attics. On the ground floor, there are two three-light casement windows with glazing bars and one single-light window. The attic includes three small dormer windows, all of which are two-light casements. The doorway is located between the two left-hand bays and features a four-panel door beneath a gabled open porch. This porch aligns with a red brick double ridge stack that serves a back-to-back hearth. The right-hand bay has a plank door set in a moulded surround, topped with a small gabled hood.
Local climate
43, High Street 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 91% 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 56% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2017
- 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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