Three Horseshoes Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 May 1952. House.
Three Horseshoes Cottage
- WRENN ID
- fallow-rafter-rush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 May 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- Three Horseshoes Cottage, High Street, Swineshead
- OS grid reference
- TL 059 657
- Coordinates
- 52.28011, -0.44879
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Three Horseshoes Cottage is a house dating from the 17th century, with later additions. The ground floor is constructed of brick, while the first floor is rough cast over what is likely a timber frame, all finished with a colour wash. The roof is made of old clay tiles and has an L-plan shape, with a hipped corner. A central red brick double ridge stack, rebuilt in a 17th-century style, serves a back-to-back hearth. The building has two storeys, and the bay at the west end features a shallower-pitched roof and an external red brick chimney stack. There is a 19th-century single-storey brick extension to the east, a single-storey lean-to extension at the rear of the south wing, and a 20th-century two-storey extension at the north gable end.
The main block has two 2-light horizontal sash windows with glazing bars on the ground floor, along with a four-panel front door accessed by three steps to the right. The first floor includes a 2-light casement window, a single fixed light, and a 3-light casement, all featuring glazing bars. The east extension has two 2-light horizontal sashes under cambered heads and a dentil cornice at the eaves.
Local climate
Three Horseshoes 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 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% 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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