20, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1985. A Post-Medieval House. 1 related planning application.
20, High Street
- WRENN ID
- floating-terrace-fog
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1985
- Type
- House
- Period
- Post-Medieval
- Address
- 20, High Street, Silsoe, MK45 4EP
- OS grid reference
- TL 082 356
- Coordinates
- 52.00863, -0.42456
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 20, High Street is a house dating from the 17th century, with additions and alterations made in the 19th century. The exterior is colourwashed roughcast, partially concealing a timber-framed structure, and it has clay tile roofs. The building follows a T-shaped plan, with the northern part of the main block raised in the 19th century and featuring a shallower roofline. The west elevation has sash windows on the ground and first floors, and a box dormer with a two-light casement window in the attic. A red brick multiple ridge stack is visible. The south elevation’s left-hand gable has a ground floor canted bay with casement windows; the first and attic floors have casement windows. A rear block includes a hipped porch within an angle, a casement window above it, and sash windows on the ground and first floors to the right.
Local climate
20, High 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 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 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 — 1 transaction since 2017
- 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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