61, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 February 1987. House. 3 related planning applications.
61, High Street
- WRENN ID
- watchful-facade-sage
- 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
- 61, High Street, Ridgmont, MK43 0TX
- OS grid reference
- SP 975 360
- Coordinates
- 52.01465, -0.58014
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an 18th-century house, possibly built on the site of an earlier structure. It is constructed of red brick with a decorative chequerwork pattern created using vitrified headers, and has a clay tile roof. The building is two storeys high with attics, and a gable end facing the road. Originally it had a two-room plan.
The west-facing front elevation features a variety of casement windows with glazing bars: three on the ground floor, two on the first floor, and one on each floor with a cambered head. A four-panel door is set within a moulded surround and has a moulded cornice hood. A substantial red brick ridge stack is positioned in line with the door. A brick band runs along the first-floor level. The road-facing gable end also has a brick band at first-floor level and a moulded brick cornice at the eaves. Casement windows with glazing bars are present on each floor, with gauged brick heads above the ground and first-floor windows, the first floor window featuring scallop moulding. A single-storey block with a slate roof was added to the rear gable end in the 19th century.
Local climate
61, High Street 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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