The Wooden House is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 March 1972. House. 1 related planning application.
The Wooden House
- WRENN ID
- weathered-iron-weasel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 March 1972
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Wooden House, Oliver Street, Ampthill, MK45 2SF
- OS grid reference
- TL 038 373
- Coordinates
- 52.02442, -0.48729
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Wooden House is a weatherboarded house dating from around 1800. It has a nearly square plan and stands two storeys high, topped with a pyramidal hipped tile roof that features a single brick chimney stack. Three sides of the house have one window on each floor, while the fourth side has two windows. The entrance is marked by a trellis porch with a concave metal hood designed in a contemporary 'rustic-oriental' style.
Local climate
The Wooden House 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2006
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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