West Half House is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1985. House.
West Half House
- WRENN ID
- sheer-spandrel-hazel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- West Half House, Wrest Park, Silsoe
- OS grid reference
- TL 090 349
- Coordinates
- 52.00189, -0.41311
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
West Half House is a 19th-century building with a distinctive exedral plan and a half-conical roof. The front façade is made of white brick laid in stretcher bond, while the rear is constructed from red brick, generally laid in English bond, topped with a lead-covered roof.
The house faces south into a small clearing. Its façade features a central segmental brick arched opening, which has an ashlar keystone and imposts, flanked by pilaster strips. Above this opening, the pediment is adorned with wooden mouldings. The rear of the building is blind but includes cast-iron rainwater goods and small circular ventilation holes in the lower courses.
Inside, a single step leads through the arch to a rendered interior that includes a wooden semi-circular seat and a stone flag floor with decorative black tiles arranged in an inset diamond pattern.
Local climate
West Half House 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 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% 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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