Court House is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 March 1972. Court house. 1 related planning application.
Court House
- WRENN ID
- second-parapet-barley
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 March 1972
- Type
- Court house
- Address
- Court House, Church Street, Ampthill, MK45 2PL
- OS grid reference
- TL 036 381
- Coordinates
- 52.0322, -0.49118
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Court House is a mid-19th century building located on the south side of Church Street. It is constructed from yellow brick and features a hipped Welsh slate roof with a wide cornice supported by console brackets. Designed in the Renaissance style, the building has a rusticated ground floor, a band at the first floor, and pilasters framing five arched windows. The lower windows are segmental headed and include keystones. To the right, there is a slightly recessed wing with a doorway that has a cornice on consoles. The Court House, along with Nos 1 to 39 (odd) on Church Street, forms a group with No 127 Dunstable Street.
Local climate
Court House 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings