Provident Place is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 March 1972. Terraced houses.
Provident Place
- WRENN ID
- sheer-cinder-hawk
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 March 1972
- Type
- Terraced houses
- Address
- Provident Place, 1-9, Oliver Street, Ampthill
- OS grid reference
- TL 033 375
- Coordinates
- 52.02703, -0.49464
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Provident Place, located at 774 Oliver Street, was built in 1850 and exhibits a Georgian character. The building is constructed of red brick and covered with Welsh slates. It has two storeys and features wide eaves. Each of the nine properties has a sash window set in a reveal with glazing bars and flat arches. The doorways are elliptical with four flush panel doors and dummy fanlights above. Provident Place, along with Nos 1 to 17 (odd) and 23 to 29 (odd), forms a cohesive group.
Local climate
Provident Place 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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 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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