37, Church Street is a Grade II* listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 July 1951. A C18 House. 2 related planning applications.

37, Church Street

WRENN ID
waiting-step-cream
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Central Bedfordshire
Constituency
Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 July 1951
Type
House
Address
37, Church Street, Ampthill, MK45 2PL
OS grid reference
TL 036 381
Coordinates
52.03235, -0.49057
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No 37 Church Street is an early 18th-century house that stands five storeys tall and was formerly known as Foulislea. The building is constructed of brick and is generously dressed with grey stone, featuring elements such as a skirting, cills, keystones, long-and-short quoins, a rich classical cornice, and plain coping above a brick parapet. The facade has five windows and is predominantly flat, but it is interrupted in the center by an elaborately carved porch supported by four modified Roman Corinthian columns. This porch is topped with a carved entablature that includes a pulvinated frieze and leads to a square brick bay that extends the full height of the house. The bay features two narrow windows on its sides at each upper storey. Inside the porch, there is a panelled door. The facade's courses up to the cornice consist of headers only, while the parapet is constructed in Flemish bond and the sides in English bond. A wrought iron railing, set in a stone footing, encloses the entire building from the steps of the porch. There are later additions at the back of the house. Inside, there is a richly carved wooden staircase. The property is part of a group with Nos 1 to 39 (odd) and the Court House, as well as No 127 Dunstable Street.

Local climate

37, Church 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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