81, Shortmead Street is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 December 1978. House. 2 related planning applications.
81, Shortmead Street
- WRENN ID
- silver-rotunda-hawk
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 December 1978
- Type
- House
- Address
- 81, Shortmead Street, Biggleswade, SG18 0BB
- OS grid reference
- TL 187 450
- Coordinates
- 52.0911, -0.26786
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 81 on Shortmead Street is an early 19th-century building constructed of red brick and features two storeys. It has a slate roof with stone gable coping. The façade includes three sash windows with glazing bars. The central entrance is a six-panel door set in panelled reveals, topped with a cornice supported by brackets, and is adorned with an ornamental fanlight.
Local climate
81, Shortmead Street sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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 — 3 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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