2, Bedford Street is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 July 1951. Public house.
2, Bedford Street
- WRENN ID
- quartered-garret-gilt
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 July 1951
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- 2, Bedford Street, Ampthill
- OS grid reference
- TL 034 381
- Coordinates
- 52.03187, -0.49311
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 2 Bedford Street is an ornate corner building designed in the Jacobean revival style by Edward Blore in 1852, located on the site of the ancient Moot-Hall. The building has two storeys made of mottled brick with shaped gables, featuring facades measuring 45 feet and 15 feet facing Bedford and Woburn Streets, respectively. It includes red brick dressing and moulding around the mullioned windows, which vary in size.
A notable feature of the building is the Town Clock, which is situated on a tiled roof near the crossroads. The wooden clock tower, dating from around 1700, has a square base that supports a carved cupola formed by eight columns, which enclose alternate round and flat arches. This is topped by a deeply moulded cornice, above which rises a pagoda-like lead roof from an octagonal base to a slender pinnacle. An ornamental wrought iron spike extends even higher, carrying a gilded weather vane and two onion-shaped red wooden finials. A drawing from 1813 shows this structure on the original Moot-Hall.
Local climate
2, Bedford 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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 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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