The White Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 June 1972. House. 1 related planning application.
The White Cottage
- WRENN ID
- idle-timber-heron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 June 1972
- Type
- House
- Address
- The White Cottage, 17, Church End, Biddenham, MK40 4AR
- OS grid reference
- TL 017 498
- Coordinates
- 52.13729, -0.51517
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The White Cottage is a house built around 1910 by MH Baillie-Scott, designed in a simplified Tudor style. It features a white rough-cast exterior and a tiled roof with brick chimneys. The building is two stories tall and has gables. It includes casement windows with glazing bars and a two-story gabled porch. To the right of the main structure, there is a one-story section that is timber framed. Adjacent to this is a gable that has mullion windows on both floors.
Local climate
The White Cottage 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 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% 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.
- No sale records on file
- 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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