General Stores is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 March 1985. Cottage with shop. 1 related planning application.
General Stores
- WRENN ID
- muted-pewter-heath
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 March 1985
- Type
- Cottage with shop
- Address
- General Stores, 55, High Street, Southill, SG18 9JB
- OS grid reference
- TL 155 420
- Coordinates
- 52.0647, -0.31647
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The General Stores is a Grade II listed cottage located on the south side of High Street in Southill. It is part of the Southill Estate and features a shop within one ground floor room. Although a plaque indicates "S W 1815," the building is likely a reworking of an earlier structure. The exterior is finished with colourwashed roughcast render over a timber frame and has a clay tile roof. The building consists of a two-room block to the west, with a cross-wing at the eastern end. It is one storey high with attics and has various later single-storey additions to the east and rear.
The eastern gable includes a three-light window that serves the shop, along with a round-headed leaded casement window in the attic. The west block features a two-light leaded casement window and a plank door leading to the east block. Additionally, the west block has a six flush panel door topped with a gabled hood supported by cut brackets. A single red brick ridge stack is present on the west block.
Local climate
General Stores 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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