The Red House is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1961. House. 4 related planning applications.
The Red House
- WRENN ID
- calm-lead-dock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 January 1961
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Red House, the Oaks, Silsoe, MK45 4DX
- OS grid reference
- TL 080 358
- Coordinates
- 52.0105, -0.42719
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Red House is an early 19th-century house made of red brick, featuring a hipped slate roof. It has a three-storey double-pile plan with a single-storey block at the rear. The south elevation has a three-window arrangement, with French windows and wood valances on the ground floor, and sash windows with glazing bars on the first and second floors. A central Roman Doric stone porch with fluted columns, pilasters, and a frieze decorated with wreaths leads to a three-panel door, which is flanked by sidelights and topped with a semi-circular fanlight that has decorative glazing bars. There are brick bands at the first and second floor levels and a bracketed eaves cornice. The house has two red brick multiple ridge stacks. The rear block is designed in the Gothic Revival style, featuring ogee-headed tripartite leaded windows and an embattled parapet. The interior is rather plain.
Local climate
The Red 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1999
- 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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