Old Woodbury House,Adjoining Wall and Gateway is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 November 1986. House. 4 related planning applications.
Old Woodbury House,Adjoining Wall and Gateway
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-grate-primrose
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 November 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Old Woodbury House,Adjoining Wall and Gateway, SG19 2HS
- OS grid reference
- TL 213 528
- Coordinates
- 52.16031, -0.22715
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Woodbury House, along with its adjoining wall and gateway, is a house that dates from the early 18th century, with additions from the later 18th century and a replacement in the early 19th century in the Gothick style. The building is constructed of brick, rendered to resemble ashlar, with a tile roof on the main range and slate roofs on the 19th-century additions. It originally featured a lobby entrance plan, with a left-hand canted bay and right-hand and rear ranges. The house is two storeys tall with attics and has scattered windows.
The windows include various timber and metal casements set in stone surrounds with foiled heads, all beneath rectangular hood moulds. The ground floor features a French window with an embattled transom and coloured glass in the heads. The first-floor windows have patterned leaded glazing, some of which have been replaced. There is a buttressed porch with an embattled parapet and a pointed arched doorway, with a hood that has scroll stops. The timber door has Gothick glazed panels, and the side windows feature decorative leaded glazing. The original range has an embattled parapet and a moulded first-floor band with bosses that continues to the left-hand canted bay, which also has coloured glass in the ground floor window heads. The right-hand wing is three storeys and similarly treated.
Inside, the early 18th-century range has a staggered butt purlin roof. At the rear, there is an embattled gateway made of rendered brick, with rusticated turret-like piers topped with pyramidal tile caps that rise above the embattled parapets over the archway. The arch features rusticated voussoirs and a keystone. An embattled red brick wall connects the gateway to the house.
Local climate
Old Woodbury House,Adjoining Wall and Gateway 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 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% 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 0.4°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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- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- 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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