East Half House is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1985. House.

East Half House

WRENN ID
stony-flue-sorrel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Central Bedfordshire
Constituency
Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 January 1985
Type
House
Address
East Half House, Wrest Park, Gravenhurst
OS grid reference
TL 093 347
Coordinates
52.00088, -0.40811
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

East Half House is a 19th-century building constructed primarily of brick, with a lead roof covering. It has a square plan with an apsidal end at the rear. The building features a three-bay wide principal elevation, highlighted by a central semi-circular archway that has an ashlar keystone. Impost bands run across the façade, separating the flanking rectangular niches from the square niches above. The lower niches, which once held statues, have volutes at their bases. Above the archway is a triangular pediment with timber moulding, and behind it is a half-conical roof. The interior is simple, containing just a semi-circular wooden seat.

Local climate

East Half 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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