26 and 27, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 March 1985. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
26 and 27, High Street
- WRENN ID
- sacred-floor-poplar
- 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
- 26 and 27, High Street, Old Warden, SG18 9HQ
- OS grid reference
- TL 137 438
- Coordinates
- 52.08129, -0.34082
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
26 and 27 High Street are a pair of cottages from the Shuttleworth Estate, marked with plaques indicating the year 1881 and featuring the Shuttleworth emblem. The cottages are built from yellow brick with red brick detailing, and the upper part is finished with colourwashed render and applied timber framing. They have a half hipped clay tile roof adorned with bands of fishscale tiles. The layout includes four rooms, with one storey and attics. On the ground floor, there are six windows in total, consisting of two 3-light and four 2-light windows. The attic features four gabled dormers, two with 3-light windows and two with 2-light windows. All windows are cast iron lattice casements. The cottages also have two multiple ridge stacks topped with a variety of Tudor style pots, and decorative ridge cresting with finials. There are 20th-century single storey additions at both ends.
Local climate
26 and 27, 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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