Avondale House is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1985. House. 6 related planning applications.
Avondale House
- WRENN ID
- first-belfry-hawthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Avondale House, 35, High Street, Shefford, SG17 5AX
- OS grid reference
- TL 141 389
- Coordinates
- 52.03759, -0.33701
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Avondale House is a house with a shop on the ground floor, dating from the 18th century, with some later alterations. It is constructed of red brick and features a clay tile roof. The building has a three-window range, is two storeys high with attics, and includes a brick band at the first floor level and a moulded brick cornice at the eaves. The left-hand side of the ground floor has an early 20th-century shopfront. On the right-hand side of the ground floor and the first floor, there are flush sash windows with glazing bars, all set under gauged brick heads. The attic features two hipped dormers with sash windows. The central entrance has a 20th-century part-glazed door within a moulded surround, topped with an open pediment supported by cut brackets. There is a red brick integral stack on the right-hand gable end. Inside, the left-hand ground floor room contains 19th-century ogee-headed built-in shelves.
Local climate
Avondale House 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 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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