15, Shortmead Street is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 November 1976. House. 4 related planning applications.
15, Shortmead Street
- WRENN ID
- proud-cupola-bramble
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 November 1976
- Type
- House
- Address
- 15, Shortmead Street, Biggleswade, SG18 0AT
- OS grid reference
- TL 187 447
- Coordinates
- 52.08868, -0.26749
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 15 Shortmead Street is an early 19th-century building featuring a front wing with an earlier timber-framed wing at the back. It is two storeys high and has a facade made of colourwashed brick. The building includes three sash windows and retains its original double-fronted shop front, which has canted windows set on brick bases, measuring six panes wide and four panes high, with a projection of one pane deep. There is a central recessed glazed door with a fanlight above, and steps leading up to it. The shop front is topped with an overall fascia and cornice, and the building is capped by a hipped slate roof.
Local climate
15, 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2016
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- 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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