16, Church Road is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 November 1993. Cottage.
16, Church Road
- WRENN ID
- former-string-laurel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 November 1993
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 16, Church Road, Steppingley
- OS grid reference
- TL 011 354
- Coordinates
- 52.00802, -0.52733
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 16 Church Road is a cottage dating from the 18th century. It is timber framed and rendered, with the framing exposed on the west gable end. The cottage has a thatched roof and features a two-cell plan. It is two storeys high with an attic and has a two-window range. There is a large central brick stack with a hearth in each cell. The spine beams and joists are exposed on the ground floor, and the purlins are exposed in the attic.
Local climate
16, Church Road 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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