Bedford Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Staffordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1985. House.
Bedford Cottage
- WRENN ID
- shadowed-plaster-primrose
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Staffordshire
- Constituency
- Stone, Great Wyrley and Penkridge MP: Sir Gavin Williamson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 July 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Bedford Cottage, School Road, Lapley, Stretton and Wheaton Aston
- OS grid reference
- SJ 852 125
- Coordinates
- 52.71003, -2.21974
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bedford Cottage is a house dating from the late 17th century, with later alterations. It is timber framed with brick infill panels and has rebuilt gable walls, topped with a blue machine tile roof. The building has two storeys and a two-window frontage, featuring a central entrance and end stacks. The first floor has sash windows with glazing bars, and there are fixed lights flanking the front door. Diagonal braces are present at the cill and eaves levels, and there is a blocked door to the left. This cottage is a remnant of a larger house, which likely had additional bays to the left of the frontage, possibly indicating a lobby entrance. The eaves were raised in the 18th century.
Local climate
Bedford Cottage receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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