20 and 22, Bedford Street is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 March 1972. House. 1 related planning application.
20 and 22, Bedford Street
- WRENN ID
- open-wattle-linden
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 March 1972
- Type
- House
- Address
- 20 and 22, Bedford Street, Ampthill, MK45 2NB
- OS grid reference
- TL 034 382
- Coordinates
- 52.03274, -0.49412
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
These are early 19th-century brick buildings on the west side of Bedford Street. Numbers 20 and 22 are two storeys and an attic, with two windows each, featuring casement windows with two or three lights, leaded and set flush under cutter flat arches. Three hipped dormers are present, and the half-hipped gable end has a third window aligned with the dormers. The front door is of a modest, neoclassical style reminiscent of Robert Soane, incorporating incised pilasters and entablatures with cornice hoods. A small 19th-century shop window is located on the right-hand side. Numbers 14 to 22 form a cohesive group.
Local climate
20 and 22, Bedford Street 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1998
- 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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