Avenue House is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 March 1987. House. 1 related planning application.
Avenue House
- WRENN ID
- plain-transept-solstice
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 March 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Avenue House, Church Street, Aspley Guise, MK17 8HH
- OS grid reference
- SP 943 362
- Coordinates
- 52.01677, -0.62663
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Avenue House is a house dating from the 17th century, with alterations made in the 19th century. It features a timber-framed structure with red brick infill and has a half-hipped roof, with slates on the front slope and clay tiles on the rear slope. The house has a three-room plan and is two storeys high with attics.
On the southeast elevation, both the ground and first floors have three three-light casements with glazing bars. The attic includes three box dormers, each with two-light casements that also have glazing bars. There is a doorway situated between the two right-hand windows, which is enclosed by a mid-19th century porch. A glazed walkway or conservatory leads to a single-storey addition from the right-hand end of the house. This 19th-century extension is made of colourwashed brick and features a slate roof and sash windows.
The main block has its front door located at the right gable end, which is a plank door beneath a moulded cut bracketed cornice hood. The rear elevation has red brick chimney stacks and additional 19th-century brick additions.
Local climate
Avenue House 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2020
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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