Manse and School House Adjoining South West is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 December 1991. Manse, school house.

Manse and School House Adjoining South West

WRENN ID
idle-rood-dale
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Central Bedfordshire
Constituency
Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 December 1991
Type
Manse, school house
OS grid reference
SP 973 358
Coordinates
52.01226, -0.58256
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The manse and integral school house, located on High Street in Ridgemont, was built around 1835. It is constructed of red brick with biscuit-colored headers and features a slate hipped roof with deep eaves, along with lead rolls at the hips and ridge. The building has a double depth plan, with the manse on the right side consisting of two front rooms and a central entrance, while the school house on the left has an entrance to the left of one front room.

The exterior is two storeys high with a symmetrical three-bay front for the manse, which has 19th-century 16-pane sash windows, flat rubbed brick arches, and a central doorway that includes a pilastered doorcase, a rectangular overlight, a small canopy, and a glazed and panelled door. The one-bay school house on the left features a similar doorway and door, but without an overlight, and has tripartite sashes with 16 panes flanked by 4-pane sidelights, also with rubbed flat brick arches. At the rear, there are 19th-century two-light casements with glazing bars. The interior has not been inspected. According to Kelly's Directory of 1914, the "Minister's residence" was claimed to have been built in 1811, which is the date inscribed on the front of the nearby Baptist Chapel.

Local climate

Manse and School House Adjoining South West sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% 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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