23, Church Street is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 July 1951. House.
23, Church Street
- WRENN ID
- spare-loft-mint
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 July 1951
- Type
- House
- Address
- 23, Church Street, Ampthill
- OS grid reference
- TL 035 381
- Coordinates
- 52.03207, -0.49178
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 23 Church Street is a late 17th century, L-shaped, two-storey house built of red brick in English bond, featuring purple brick dressings for the quoins, windows, and a string course between the floors. The house has a deep wooden cornice at the eaves, which sit below a steep tiled roof. It has four sash windows, with two 18th century shallow bay windows added to the ground floor, constructed in a redder brick using Flemish bond and featuring three-light windows. The corresponding two windows on the first floor also have three lights, while a fourth window has been bricked up in Flemish bond. Below this bricked-up window is a carriageway enclosed by doors that retain bold 17th century fielded panelling. An 18th century four-fielded, two-flush panelled door with a delicate fanlight and a rubbed red brick arch has been added. Nos. 1 to 39 (odd) and the Court House form a group with No. 127 Dunstable Street.
Local climate
23, Church Street 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1995
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