8 and 10, Bell Lane is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1984. Cottages. 1 related planning application.
8 and 10, Bell Lane
- WRENN ID
- buried-alcove-thrush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 May 1984
- Type
- Cottages
- Address
- 8 and 10, Bell Lane, Cotton End, MK45 3AD
- OS grid reference
- TL 085 453
- Coordinates
- 52.09613, -0.41637
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
These are two 18th-century cottages located on Bell Lane in Eastcott. They are timber-framed with a colour-washed roughcast exterior and a clay tile roof. Each cottage originally had a single-room plan, although No. 8 has a later addition with a higher roofline. The original block of each cottage features two two-light casement windows on each floor. The central ground floor has a pair of part-glazed doors; the left-hand door has a flat hood, and the right-hand door has a gabled trellis-work porch. The later addition to No. 8 has a two-light casement window on the first floor and a 20th-century lean-to addition on the ground floor.
Local climate
8 and 10, Bell Lane sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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 — 2 transactions since 2000
- 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
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