The Ragged Staff is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 March 1985. House, inn.
The Ragged Staff
- WRENN ID
- buried-minaret-ebony
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 March 1985
- Type
- House, inn
- Address
- The Ragged Staff, 5 and 7, High Street, Blunham
- OS grid reference
- TL 152 511
- Coordinates
- 52.14695, -0.31709
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Ragged Staff is a house that was formerly an inn, dating back to the 16th century and reworked in the 19th century. It features timber framed construction, with part of the east elevation rebuilt. The exterior is colourwashed roughcast with applied mock timber framing on the front. The roof is covered in clay tiles and the building has an L-plan layout, consisting of two storeys and a single-storey lean-to addition at the rear of the main block.
The front of the building has a left-hand gable with a canted bay that includes sash windows with glazing bars on the ground floor, and a jettied first floor with another sash window. The main block has a similar canted bay on the right side of the ground floor, with a sash window to the left and two three-light casements on the first floor. There is a six-panel door set in a moulded surround topped with a gabled hood. The building features yellow brick double ridge stacks on both blocks, which serve back-to-back track hearths, and the gables are adorned with pierced wavy-edged bargeboards.
Local climate
The Ragged Staff 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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