No 44 and the Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 December 1979. Cottage with post office. 1 related planning application.
No 44 and the Post Office
- WRENN ID
- rough-pier-peregrine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 December 1979
- Type
- Cottage with post office
- Address
- No 44 and the Post Office, London Road, Sandy, SG19 1HA
- OS grid reference
- TL 165 493
- Coordinates
- 52.13055, -0.29893
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This listing describes a building comprising a 17th-century cottage and a 19th-century wing, located on the east side of Sandy London Road.
The left-hand portion of the building is a gabled cottage, originally dating to the 17th century and later refaced with whitewashed brick. It is two storeys high with an old clay tile roof. A 19th-century casement window is set into the gable end of the first floor, beneath a slightly cambered head. The ground floor has a modern window.
To the right is a 19th-century wing constructed of whitewashed brick and featuring a slate roof with modillioned eaves. It is also two storeys high and contains two casement windows. A 19th-century shop window with six panes is located on the ground floor to the right.
Local climate
No 44 and the Post Office 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2003
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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