16 and 17, How End Road is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 May 1985. House.
16 and 17, How End Road
- WRENN ID
- quiet-soffit-root
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 May 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- 16 and 17, How End Road, Houghton Conquest
- OS grid reference
- TL 033 403
- Coordinates
- 52.05198, -0.49364
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos. 16 and 17 on How End Road is a house that has been divided into two properties. It dates from the 17th century but has been reworked in the 19th century. The building features a timber-framed construction with cement render, and part of the ground floor has been rebuilt or recased in red brick. It has a clay tile roof and a three-room plan across two storeys. The south elevation displays a variety of casement windows, including one that retains diamond leading, with three windows on each floor. There is a gabled dormer in the right-hand attic. A plank door is located between the two left-hand bays. A red brick double ridge stack serves the two right-hand bays. Additionally, there is a 19th-century one-storey and attic brick block at the left end, along with a 20th-century brick lean-to at the right end.
Local climate
16 and 17, How End Road sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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