Parsonage Piece is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 October 1970. House. 2 related planning applications.
Parsonage Piece
- WRENN ID
- waning-cornice-rush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 October 1970
- Type
- House
- Address
- Parsonage Piece, High Street, Old Warden, SG18 9HQ
- OS grid reference
- TL 138 440
- Coordinates
- 52.0835, -0.33953
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Parsonage Piece is a house that was formerly a cottage on the Shuttleworth estate. It dates from the 17th and 18th centuries and was reworked in the early 19th century. The building is timber framed, with some substantial sections, and has a colourwashed roughcast render. It features an old clay tile roof and is designed in an L-shape over two storeys, with various 19th and 20th-century additions to the north and south.
On the southwest elevation of the main block, there are two windows on the ground floor and three on the first floor, all of which are 2-light cast iron lattice casements. There is a 20th-century porch and door to the left-hand side. A red brick ridge stack with a moulded cornice and chamfered angles is also present. The same style of fenestration is found elsewhere on the building.
Local climate
Parsonage Piece 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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