24 and 26, Church Street is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 March 1972. A Georgian Alms house. 3 related planning applications.
24 and 26, Church Street
- WRENN ID
- watchful-zinc-kestrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 March 1972
- Type
- Alms house
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- 24 and 26, Church Street, Ampthill, MK45 2EH
- OS grid reference
- TL 035 381
- Coordinates
- 52.03234, -0.49137
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
24 and 26 Church Street are an early 18th-century example of a building that was refaced from an earlier structure. The building has a brick footing and rough plaster exterior. It is two storeys high and has a tiled roof. The east gable end is half-timbered with red brick nogging. There are four flush casement windows with glazing bars. The property forms a group with Nos 1 to 7 (consec), the Feoffe Almshouses, and the Parish Church of St Andrew. It also forms a group with Nos 12 to 32 (even).
Local climate
24 and 26, Church 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 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2013
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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