Old Priory House is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1985. House.
Old Priory House
- WRENN ID
- pitched-arch-thyme
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Old Priory House, Beadlow, Shefford, Clophill, SG17 5PL
- OS grid reference
- TL 104 385
- Coordinates
- 52.03469, -0.39133
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Priory House is a house dating from around 1600 and the 18th century, which was restored in the 20th century. It features a timber-framed construction, with the southern block having fairly close studding and red brick infill. The roofs are covered with clay tiles. The building is L-shaped, with two storeys and attics.
On the south elevation, there are two 3-light leaded casement windows on each floor. A red brick double ridge stack is present. The west elevation shows that the left-hand part of the rear block appears to be a later addition, with lighter framing. There is a variety of leaded casements of different sizes, mostly 2-light, with four on both the ground and first floors, and one in the attic of the main block. A red brick integral stack is located at the north gable end. A 20th-century gabled porch is situated to the left of the junction of the two wings, and there are also 20th-century two-storeyed gabled additions within the northeast angle.
Local climate
Old Priory House 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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- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1997
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