1, Ampthill Road is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1985. House.
1, Ampthill Road
- WRENN ID
- solitary-chamber-ridge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- 1, Ampthill Road, Shefford
- OS grid reference
- TL 141 389
- Coordinates
- 52.03752, -0.3377
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 1 Ampthill Road is a house that was originally part of a pair, built in the 18th century and later modified in the 19th century. It features a timber-framed construction with a colourwashed roughcast render and a clay tile roof. The building has a two-room plan and stands two storeys high with attics.
On the ground floor, there is a 19th-century rectangular bay window and one three-light window, while the first floor has two two-light windows, all of which are 19th-century casements. The ground floor windows are flanked by doorways, each with a gabled hood supported by cut brackets. The left-hand doorway has a 20th-century glazed door, and the right-hand doorway has a 20th-century part-glazed door. A red brick central multiple ridge stack is present, along with small attic windows in the gable ends. At the rear, there is a lean-to addition.
Local climate
1, Ampthill Road 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 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% 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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