69 and 71, Sundon Road is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 July 1989. Cottage.
69 and 71, Sundon Road
- WRENN ID
- burning-steeple-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 July 1989
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 69 and 71, Sundon Road, Harlington
- OS grid reference
- TL 037 302
- Coordinates
- 51.96068, -0.49159
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 69 and 71 on Sundon Road in Harlington are a pair of cottages that date from the late 17th century to early 18th century. They are constructed with roughcast over a timber frame, set on a brick plinth. The gable roofs are covered with plain tiles, with No 69 on the left featuring 20th-century tiles and No 71 on the right having older tiles. Both cottages have brick ridge stacks and are arranged in a 4-unit plan, standing one storey high with an attic and a four-window range.
The front of No 69 has a mid-20th-century door with a flat rendered arch above it, along with mid-20th-century two to three-light windows. In contrast, No 71 has a 19th-century plank door and late 19th-century two to three-light casement windows set in moulded wood architraves. Both cottages feature four gabled dormers.
On the rear elevation, No 69 retains an early 19th-century horizontal-sliding sash window, two late 18th to early 19th-century two-light iron casements, and an early 19th-century six-panelled door. The interior of No 69 showcases an exposed timber frame with light scantling, tabled scarfs to the wall plates, chamfered beams, and late 17th to early 18th-century plank doors with original strap hinges and latches leading to two quarter-turn stairs with winders. No 71 has not been inspected but is likely to be of interest.
Local climate
69 and 71, Sundon 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 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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