56, Shortmead Street is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 December 1978. Commercial.
56, Shortmead Street
- WRENN ID
- stony-sentry-furze
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 December 1978
- Type
- Commercial
- Address
- 56, Shortmead Street, Biggleswade
- OS grid reference
- TL 188 448
- Coordinates
- 52.08891, -0.267
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 56 Shortmead Street is a 19th-century building that has been refaced from an earlier structure. It features colourwashed plaster and stands two storeys high, topped with a slate roof behind a parapet. The front has four sash windows with marginal glazing bars, each set within an architrave surround. On the ground floor, from left to right, there is a single sash window similar to those above, a doorway with a cornice supported by consoles, a 19th-century double-fronted shop with a bracketed cornice, and a simple plank door on the right. This building is included for its group value with other nearby structures.
Local climate
56, Shortmead 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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