Strawplaiters is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1961. House.

Strawplaiters

WRENN ID
eastward-cellar-sable
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Central Bedfordshire
Constituency
Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 January 1961
Type
House
Address
Strawplaiters, 7 and 9, Church Road, Harlington
OS grid reference
TL 037 305
Coordinates
51.96353, -0.49158
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Strawplaiters is a house located on Church Road in Harlington, dating from the late 16th century or early 17th century, with some reworking around 1800. The building has a timber-framed structure, featuring colourwashed plaster infill on the sides and rear, and a red brick front elevation. It has a 20th-century tile roof that is half-hipped at the left end. The house has a two-room plan for the front block, with a gabled block at the rear, creating a T-plan layout. It stands two storeys tall and has two three-light casement windows with glazing bars on both floors, with the first-floor windows flanking a two-light casement. There is a plank door beneath a cut bracketed door hood, and a red brick multiple ridge stack is aligned with the door.

Local climate

Strawplaiters 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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