53-55 is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 May 1985. Estate cottages.
53-55
- WRENN ID
- dark-sentry-yew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 May 1985
- Type
- Estate cottages
- Address
- 53-55, Millbrook
- OS grid reference
- TL 014 383
- Coordinates
- 52.03399, -0.5229
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos. 53 to 55 are estate cottages built in 1849, as indicated by a plaque featuring the Duke of Bedford's crest. They are constructed of red brick and have half-hipped clay tile roofs. The cottages form a row with their gable ends facing the road, and there is a gable that projects from the center of both the front and rear elevations. They are one storey high with attics.
On the front (north) elevation, the central gable is flanked by smaller gables that break through the eaves. Each floor features a series of 2-light casement windows, arranged in a 1:1:1 pattern, with most being cast iron lattice windows. Nos. 53 and 55 have additional single-light windows. No. 54 includes a brick porch to the right of the projecting gable, which has a three-centred arch and a plank door. No. 55 has a 20th-century door on the road gable end, topped with a tiled gabled hood supported by decorative curved brackets. The eaves cornices feature brick cogging, and most of the gable hips are adorned with timber finials. There are three multiple ridge stacks made of red brick.
Local climate
53-55 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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 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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