Moat Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 August 1983. A C17 House.
Moat Cottage
- WRENN ID
- muffled-frieze-elder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 August 1983
- Type
- House
- Address
- Moat Cottage, the Lane, Wyboston, Chawston and Colesden
- OS grid reference
- TL 153 567
- Coordinates
- 52.19735, -0.31327
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Moat Cottage is a house dating from the 17th century. It features a colour-washed rough cast exterior over a timber frame and has a 20th-century tiled roof. The building has a three-room plan and stands two storeys tall. The north elevation displays two casement windows on the ground floor and three casement windows on the first floor, along with one single fixed light on each floor, all of which are from the 20th century. There is a red brick double ridge stack and a lean-to addition on the west gable end. The entrances are located at the rear, with the western entrance featuring a 20th-century lean-to porch.
Local climate
Moat 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 98% 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 53% 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 0.4°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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