Asphodel is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 May 1985. House. 1 related planning application.
Asphodel
- WRENN ID
- noble-step-cobweb
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 May 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Asphodel, 57, Sundon Road, Harlington, LU5 6LR
- OS grid reference
- TL 037 302
- Coordinates
- 51.96098, -0.49176
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Asphodel is a house built around 1700, featuring a timber-framed structure with colourwashed brick infill and a clay tile roof. The building has a two-room plan and consists of one storey with attics. On the ground floor, there are two three-light casement windows with diamond leading, and a plank door that has a flat bracketed hood above it. A red brick double ridge stack is positioned in line with the door. The left-hand gable end includes a 20th-century gabled porch extension, above which is a two-light leaded attic window. There is also a 20th-century extension at the rear.
Local climate
Asphodel 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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