The Poplars is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 February 1987. House.
The Poplars
- WRENN ID
- silent-vault-sable
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 February 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Poplars, 3, Lombard Street, Lidlington
- OS grid reference
- SP 990 390
- Coordinates
- 52.04085, -0.5568
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Poplars is a house dating from the 17th and 18th centuries, featuring timber framed construction with some areas having colourwashed plaster infill, while other parts have been encased and replaced by colourwashed brick. The roof is covered with clay tiles. The building has an L-shaped plan, consisting of a two-room 17th-century block and an 18th-century half-hipped block that projects to the northeast. There is a single-storey 19th-century colourwashed brick addition that projects to the southeast.
The windows vary, with a mix of casement styles, mostly consisting of two or three lights, some with glazing bars and others with leaded lights. A 20th-century box dormer is present on the 18th-century block, and a 20th-century canted bay window is located on the southwest side of the 17th-century block. The 17th-century section features a part-glazed front door aligned with a red brick ridge stack, which originally served a back-to-back hearth, although one side of the hearth is now blocked.
Local climate
The Poplars sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% 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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