Milford Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 August 1983. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Milford Cottage
- WRENN ID
- plain-outpost-azure
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 August 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Milford Cottage, Cross End Lane, Thurleigh, MK44 2ED
- OS grid reference
- TL 063 587
- Coordinates
- 52.21701, -0.44518
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Milford Cottage is a 17th-century cottage that has been modernised. It features colour washed plaster over a timber frame and has a 20th-century tiled roof. The cottage consists of two rooms with a 20th-century cross-wing added to the north and stands two storeys high. There is a central ridge stack that serves back-to-back hearths. Throughout the cottage, there are 20th-century casements and doors.
Local climate
Milford 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 97% 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, fewer than 52% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2019
- 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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