49, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 October 1970. Cottage.
49, High Street
- WRENN ID
- lesser-slate-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 October 1970
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 49, High Street, Old Warden
- OS grid reference
- TL 135 436
- Coordinates
- 52.07932, -0.34378
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 49 High Street is a cottage from the Shuttleworth estate, originally built as a pair and later modified in the 19th century. It features timber framed construction with colourwashed roughcast render on the exterior and a thatched roof. The building has a four-room layout, consisting of one storey and attics. On the ground floor, there are two 2-light casement windows with leaded lights, while the attic includes two eyebrow dormers, each with 2-light leaded casements. The cottage has two plank doors, and the ground floor openings are framed with plain surrounds and shallow pediments. A central brick multiple ridge stack is present, along with plain bargeboards on the gable ends. This description also includes the former No. 50.
Local climate
49, High Street sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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