18, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 October 1970. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
18, High Street
- WRENN ID
- drifting-screen-auburn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 October 1970
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 18, High Street, Old Warden, SG18 9HQ
- OS grid reference
- TL 137 439
- Coordinates
- 52.08211, -0.34087
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 18 High Street is a small cottage from the 18th century that was reworked in the early 19th century. It features colourwashed roughcast render over a timber-framed construction and has a clay tile roof. The cottage has a two-room plan and is one storey high with attics, positioned gable end to the road. The gable facing the road has one two-light leaded casement window on each floor. The southwest elevation includes two two-light leaded casement windows flanking a plank door. A brick double ridge stack is located in line with the door.
Local climate
18, High 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.
- No sale records on file
- 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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