31-33, Bedford Street is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 March 1987. Cottage.
31-33, Bedford Street
- WRENN ID
- fossil-tin-wren
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 March 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 31-33, Bedford Street, Woburn
- OS grid reference
- SP 948 333
- Coordinates
- 51.99059, -0.62046
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
31-33 Bedford Street is a pair of cottages built in 1860 by the Seventh Duke of Bedford. They are constructed from light red mottled brick and feature a 20th-century tiled roof.
The cottages are two stories high and have two gables on either side of a central gablet. The ground floor includes three three-light windows, while the first floor has two two-light windows beneath the left gable and one three-light window beneath both the central gablet and the right gable. All windows are small-paned casements set in timber mullioned surrounds, topped with gauged brick flat heads. There are two doorways, one on each side of the central section, each featuring a door with three vertical panels and a gauged brick flat head with a dripstone above. The roof is adorned with two red brick multiple ridge stacks.
The Seventh Duke of Bedford aimed to provide comfortable housing for agricultural labourers, focusing on practical design rather than picturesque aesthetics from the late 1840s onwards. These cottages are notable for their high-quality construction at an early date and represent a significant contribution to the evolution of working-class housing, influencing the development of garden cities and early council housing. The Dukes of Bedford built approximately 500 cottages in the area between the late 1840s and World War I. This pair of cottages reflects the designs found in the Seventh Duke's Plans and Elevations and is recognized for its group value.
Local climate
31-33, Bedford Street sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% 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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