Ampthill News is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 July 1951. A Late C18 Office_building.
Ampthill News
- WRENN ID
- sombre-hinge-plover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 July 1951
- Type
- Office_building
- Address
- Ampthill News, 11, Church Street
- OS grid reference
- TL 035 381
- Coordinates
- 52.03188, -0.49245
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 11, known as Ampthill News, is a late 18th century narrow-fronted office building located on Church Street. It is approximately 15 feet wide and has three storeys constructed of brick, topped with a parapet. The ground floor features a very wide and slightly bowed shop window that is combined with the doorway. Next to the doorway, there is a contemporary iron street lamp. Each of the upper storeys has a single wide three-light window. This building is part of a group that includes Nos 1 to 39 (odd) and the Court House, along with No 127 Dunstable Street.
Local climate
Ampthill News sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% 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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