40, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 January 1995. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
40, High Street
- WRENN ID
- secret-baluster-tide
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 January 1995
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 40, High Street, Flitton and Greenfield, MK45 5DD
- OS grid reference
- TL 051 347
- Coordinates
- 52.00094, -0.46949
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 40 High Street is a cottage, likely originally a pair of cottages, dating from the 18th century. It has been mostly refenestrated in the 20th century when a porch was added. The building is timber-framed, with the frame of thin scantling exposed on the front elevation and rendered infill, while the other elevations are also rendered. It features a thatched roof with eyebrow dormers and a central painted brick stack. The layout consists of two rooms with a central back-to-back hearth. The cottage is one storey with attics and has a 2:4 window arrangement. The outer windows on the ground floor may have been built out with doorcases. The 20th-century porch is located on the right-hand side. The rear elevation includes an outshot and a 20th-century gabled dormer. Inside, there are two cambered brick fireplaces and exposed framing, which includes a spine beam and diagonal tension braces.
Local climate
40, High Street 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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- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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