70 and 71, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 March 1985. Cottage.
70 and 71, High Street
- WRENN ID
- cold-moulding-laurel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 March 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 70 and 71, High Street, Southill
- OS grid reference
- TL 150 419
- Coordinates
- 52.06404, -0.32362
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
70 and 71 High Street are a pair of cottages from the Southill Estate, built in 1796 as indicated by a plaque. They feature a colourwashed roughcast exterior over a timber frame and have a clay tile roof. The cottages have a four-room layout, with one storey and attics. The ground floor includes four two-light casements, while the attics have two box dormers with two-light casements. There are two plain doors and a central multiple red brick ridge stack.
Local climate
70 and 71, High Street 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 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% 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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