25 and 27, Bedford Road is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 August 1976. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
25 and 27, Bedford Road
- WRENN ID
- tangled-moat-willow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 August 1976
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 25 and 27, Bedford Road, Northill, SG18 9AL
- OS grid reference
- TL 142 467
- Coordinates
- 52.10691, -0.33316
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos. 25 and 27 Bedford Road are a pair of lodge cottages that originally belonged to Ickwell Bury. They date from the early 19th century and have undergone some reworking and an addition in the 20th century. The cottages feature colourwashed roughcast render, with No. 25 retaining its original slender timber framing, while No. 27 has been rebuilt in brick. Both have slate roofs that are hipped on the facing elevations.
The buildings consist of two single-storeyed square blocks with entrances that face each other, now connected by a 20th-century block. Each entrance front has a central doorway with an ogee head. No. 25 still has its original door, which features two ogee-headed panels. There are two flanking casement windows on each side, each with two pointed-arched leaded lights beneath ogee heads. The heads of the windows and doors all have fleur-de-lys decoration at the apex. The road-facing elevations also have two similar ogee-headed windows, but these do not include the fleur-de-lys detail. Each block has a double central ridge stack.
Local climate
25 and 27, Bedford Road 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 — 1 transaction since 2018
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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