51, West End Road is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 March 1992. House.
51, West End Road
- WRENN ID
- roaming-ledge-smoke
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 March 1992
- Type
- House
- Address
- 51, West End Road, Silsoe
- OS grid reference
- TL 077 354
- Coordinates
- 52.00696, -0.43199
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 51 West End Road is a house dating from the late 17th century, likely extended in the 18th century. It features a timber frame set on a brick or stone plinth, all rendered in pebble-dash. The roof is thatched with gabled and hipped ends, and there are brick axial and gable end stacks. The building has a three-room plan with winder stairs located between the left (south) room and a smaller central room. The right-hand (north) room and a short wing at the back may be an 18th-century addition.
The exterior is one storey with an attic and has an asymmetrical three-window east front. It features 20th-century two and three-light casements with leaded panes. The thatched eaves rise as an eyebrow over a central attic window. There is a doorway to the left of centre, which has a 20th-century timber frame and brick porch. The rear (west) side has a hipped roof wing on the left, with eyebrows over attic windows on the west and north sides, and a 20th-century outshut on the south side, all with 20th-century casements.
Inside, the building has exposed wall and partition framing with straight tension braces. The north room contains a thin chamfered cross-beam and exposed joists, while the centre and south rooms lack main beams but have exposed later joists. The south room features a Victorian iron chimneypiece, the centre room has a 19th-century wooden pilastered chimneypiece, and the north room has a fireplace with a wooden lintel. There is a circa 18th-century two-panel cupboard door under the stairs, and the roof has tie-beam trusses with collars and clasped purlins.
Local climate
51, West End 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 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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