Lye Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1987. House.
Lye Cottage
- WRENN ID
- little-remnant-autumn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Lye Cottage, 29, High Street, Carlton and Chellington
- OS grid reference
- SP 953 552
- Coordinates
- 52.18734, -0.60615
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lye Cottage is a 17th-century house located on the east side of High Street in Carlton and Chellington. It is constructed from coursed limestone rubble and features a thatched roof with stone gable coping at the eastern end. The building has a three-bay plan and stands two storeys high with attics, presenting a gable end to the road.
On the south elevation, there are two dormer windows, and on the first floor, three 3-light casement windows are visible. The ground floor includes one casement window with glazing bars and two sash windows with glazing bars in the upper sash, which are situated on either side of a gabled porch adorned with scalloped bargeboards.
The north elevation features four first-floor windows: two 3-light casements on the left, a 2-light casement with glazing bars, and a 19th-century sash window with glazing bars. The ground floor has one 3-light casement, three 2-light casements with glazing bars, and two gabled doorhoods, one of which has brackets and 20th-century porch sides. The gable ends have red brick stacks, along with an off-centre ridge stack on the west side of the central bay.
Local climate
Lye Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% 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 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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