2, London Road is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 December 1978. House.
2, London Road
- WRENN ID
- rough-latch-crag
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 December 1978
- Type
- House
- Address
- 2, London Road, Biggleswade
- OS grid reference
- TL 193 445
- Coordinates
- 52.08684, -0.25988
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 2 on London Road is a late 19th-century building made of gault brick, featuring two stories and a basement. It has a balustraded parapet with decorated corner pillars and a deep cornice adorned with modillion and dentil friezes. The building includes brick quoins and two sash windows with marginal glazing bars and stained glass. The first-floor windows are topped with decorated pediments supported by consoles. The ground floor has a decorated frieze and cornice also on consoles. Central to the first floor are French doors of a similar style that open onto the top of a porch, which is supported by heavy rusticated columns.
Local climate
2, London Road 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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