Cotton End Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1984. House.
Cotton End Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- lesser-outpost-elm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 May 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Cotton End Farmhouse, 227, Cotton End Road, Wilshamstead
- OS grid reference
- TL 079 441
- Coordinates
- 52.0856, -0.42645
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cotton End Farmhouse is a house dating from the 17th century, with alterations and additions made in the 18th and 19th centuries. It features two inscribed bricks that read "T.K. 1776." The southeast end has a pebbledash render over a timber frame, while the northwest side is a red brick addition. The roofs are hipped and covered with clay tiles. The building has an L-shaped plan and stands two storeys tall, with single-storey outhouse additions to the southwest. There is a variety of casement windows, mostly from the 20th century, with two on each floor of the earlier block, all under cambered heads. A 20th-century gabled porch aligns with the red brick double ridge stack.
Local climate
Cotton End Farmhouse 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 96% 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 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% 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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