43, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1961. A C19 House.
43, High Street
- WRENN ID
- muffled-corner-heron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 January 1961
- Type
- House
- Address
- 43, High Street, Silsoe
- OS grid reference
- TL 081 357
- Coordinates
- 52.00942, -0.42523
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building, located at 43 High Street, is a house dating from the 17th century that was reworked in the 19th century. It features a timber-framed construction, with parts covered in colourwashed roughcast render and other sections having exposed colourwashed brick infill. The ground floor of the front elevation has been rebuilt in colourwashed brick. The roof is made of clay tiles and the house has a two-room plan across two storeys.
On the ground floor, there are two 3-light leaded casement windows, while the first floor has three 2-light leaded casement windows. The central window is part of a rectangular oriel supported by wooden brackets and topped with a hipped roof. The entrance features a central flush panel door, and there is a moulded wood eaves cornice. A central red brick multiple ridge stack with two recessed panels is also present. At the rear, there is a lean-to addition.
Local climate
43, High Street 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 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 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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