48 and 50, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1961. A C16 House. 3 related planning applications.
48 and 50, High Street
- WRENN ID
- far-cloister-snow
- 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
- 48 and 50, High Street, Silsoe, MK45 4EP
- OS grid reference
- TL 082 357
- Coordinates
- 52.01006, -0.42483
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a timber-framed house, originally dating to the 16th century, and now subdivided into two separate properties. The building has undergone alterations and additions in the 19th century. The structure is timber-framed with colourwashed roughcast rendering, and it has a clay tile roof that is half-hipped at the south end. The original plan consisted of two rooms, and a two-storey addition was built to the west in the 19th century, with a slated roof. The windows are varied and mostly 20th-century casements. There are doorways on the north and south ends, also dating to the 20th century. A significant brick chimney breast of red brick, with flared headers, is visible on the east elevation. Small lean-to additions are present on the east and south elevations. Inside, the ground floor retains substantial moulded beams.
Local climate
48 and 50, High 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 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2010
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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