53, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1961. House. 1 related planning application.
53, High Street
- WRENN ID
- weathered-lantern-linden
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 January 1961
- Type
- House
- Address
- 53, High Street, Silsoe, MK45 4EP
- OS grid reference
- TL 081 358
- Coordinates
- 52.01037, -0.42545
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 53 High Street is a house that dates from the 18th and 19th centuries, likely incorporating elements of an earlier structure. The left side features colourwashed roughcast, while the right side is covered in weatherboarding, probably over some timber framing. The building has hipped clay tile roofs and is arranged in an L-plan over two storeys with attics.
On the ground floor, there is a canted bay window on the left-hand side, which has an architrave and a modillion cornice. This bay, along with the two ground floor windows on the right and the four first floor windows, all contain sashes with glazing bars. The entrance features an eight-panel door topped by a rectangular fanlight with ornamental glazing bars, flanked by fluted pilasters that support a moulded cornice. The eaves have a moulded and coved wood cornice. The building has a colourwashed multiple ridge stack, and the side block facing the road has a substantial multiple ridge stack and small box dormers.
Local climate
53, High 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 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2006
- 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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