Dynevor House is a Grade II* listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 July 1951. House. 6 related planning applications.

Dynevor House

WRENN ID
carved-moat-cobweb
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Central Bedfordshire
Constituency
Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 July 1951
Type
House
Address
Dynevor House, 34, Church Street, Ampthill
OS grid reference
TL 036 382
Coordinates
52.0328, -0.48997
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Dynevor House, originally known as Paunfort Lodge, is a three-storey house dating from 1725. It was initially constructed for Simon Urlin, a prosperous individual who owned the large garden that was later incorporated into Avenue House. The avenue formerly led directly to Dynevor House. The house is built of red brick, with a chequered pattern using blue brick. It features a finely moulded brick cornice below a plain parapet with stone coping.

The East front (entrance front) has seven windows in broad, flush frames. The lower edges of the flat red brick arches over the upper two floors are slightly recessed to create a series of delicate curves, a detail also found at No 1 Bedford Street. The brick cornice extends around the North, East, and South sides of the building. A boldly projecting wooden cornice with large modillions is located above the first floor on the West (garden) front. Above this cornice, the second floor is suggested only at the ends with two blank windows, and over the three central windows, the parapet curves down to a lower level. The South front (street front) has three windows, with the central window on each floor being blank. The original entrance door, situated in the centre of the East front, has boldly fielded panels, brass furniture, and is set within a finely carved wooden frame featuring fluted pilasters and an elaborate classical entablature with triglyphs and modillions.

Dynevor House, along with Nos 34 and 36, Little Dynevor, and Nos 1 to 7 (consecutive) Feoffee Almshouses, forms a group with the Parish Church of St Andrews.

Local climate

Dynevor 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 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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  • Sale history — 5 transactions since 2002
  • Related listed building consents — 6 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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