The Chestnuts is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. House.
The Chestnuts
- WRENN ID
- blind-vestry-spindle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard MP: Alex Mayer (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Chestnuts, Watling Street, Hockliffe
- OS grid reference
- SP 976 264
- Coordinates
- 51.92824, -0.58181
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Chestnuts is a building dating from the 17th and 18th centuries. It features red brick stretchers and vitrified headers, with a gable end facing the road. The structure is two storeys high and has an old clay tile roof. It includes casement windows with glazing bars and a heavy red brick stack. Timber-framing is visible on the road elevation.
Local climate
The Chestnuts sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2004
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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