Maze Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1987. Lodge.
Maze Cottage
- WRENN ID
- solemn-pewter-vetch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1987
- Type
- Lodge
- Address
- Maze Cottage, the Drive, Church Lane, Oakley
- OS grid reference
- TL 007 533
- Coordinates
- 52.16882, -0.52825
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Maze Cottage is a lodge built in the late 18th century or early 19th century. It features colourwashed brick and an old clay tile roof. The building has an original L-plan layout, with a left-hand projecting gabled wing and a 20th-century wing added to the rear. It is one storey high with attics and has modillion brick eaves. The neo-Tudor style is evident in the paired hexagonal chimney stacks. The projecting wing includes a gable end attic with a 2-light cast iron casement window and a canted bay window on the ground floor. The main wing has a similar metal window on the front elevation, along with a porch built into the angle between the two wings. The cottage is believed to have served as the lodge to Oakley House and is named after a maze that was located nearby but has since been destroyed.
Local climate
Maze 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, more than 50% 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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