Manor Farm Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 August 1983. A C17 Cottage. 11 related planning applications.
Manor Farm Cottage
- WRENN ID
- crooked-barrel-fen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 August 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Manor Farm Cottage, Ravensden
- OS grid reference
- TL 056 554
- Coordinates
- 52.187, -0.4557
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Manor Farm Cottage is a 17th-century cottage that features a timber frame with a colour washed rough cast exterior and a corrugated asbestos roof. The building has a T-plan layout and consists of one storey with attics. The front elevation includes three 3-light casement windows with glazing bars on the ground floor and two sloping-roofed dormers with 20th-century casements. There is a 20th-century gabled porch aligned with a red brick double ridge stack, and a red brick integral gable end stack is located on the west side. Additionally, there is a 20th-century garage addition at the rear on the west side and a one-storey lean-to addition on the east gable end.
Local climate
Manor Farm 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 11 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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