19 and 21, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 August 1979. A C16 House.

19 and 21, High Street

WRENN ID
crooked-paling-thistle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Central Bedfordshire
Constituency
Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
6 August 1979
Type
House
Address
19 and 21, High Street, Shefford
OS grid reference
TL 142 390
Coordinates
52.03804, -0.33507
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

19 and 21 High Street are two houses dating from the 16th century, with alterations made in the 19th century. They feature substantial timber-framed construction with colourwashed roughcast render and a steeply pitched concrete tile roof. The buildings have a total of three rooms and are two storeys high. The first floor was originally jettied but has been underbuilt in brick, with other parts of the frame also rebuilt in brick. The first floor includes one 19th-century three-light casement window and two 20th-century four-light casement windows. On the ground floor, No. 19 has two small shop windows flanking a central part-glazed door with a gabled bracketed hood, while No. 21 features a canted double-fronted 19th-century shop window, with a part-glazed door recessed in the centre. Inside, No. 19 retains some early panelling on the first floor, and No. 21 has some moulded ceiling beams.

Local climate

19 and 21, High 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 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% 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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