23, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 August 1979. A 18th century House.
23, High Street
- WRENN ID
- ghost-screen-falcon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 August 1979
- Type
- House
- Period
- 18th century
- Address
- 23, High Street, Shefford
- OS grid reference
- TL 142 390
- Coordinates
- 52.03789, -0.33547
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 23 High Street is an 18th-century house that has some mid-19th century alterations. It is constructed of red brick featuring flared headers and has a gabled clay tile roof with decorative ridge cresting. The house has a double-pile plan and is two storeys tall with a three-window range. The 19th-century sash windows are set beneath cambered heads. The central entrance consists of a six-panel door topped by a semi-circular fanlight with interlaced glazing bars, and it is flanked by round-headed single lights. On either side of the door are paired narrow pilasters with large cut brackets that support a moulded cornice hood. At the rear left, there is a chimney stack with moulded Tudor-style terracotta pots.
Local climate
23, High Street sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% 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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