Outhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1987. Cottage. 4 related planning applications.
Outhouse
- WRENN ID
- half-obsidian-azure
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Outhouse, High Street, Odell, MK43 7BB
- OS grid reference
- SP 968 580
- Coordinates
- 52.21216, -0.5834
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building is an early 17th century cottage, featuring a datestone from 1603 located at the apex of the west gable. It is constructed from coursed limestone rubble and has a thatched roof. The cottage has a basic two-room layout with a central double-sided hearth and an old brick stack. Modern casement windows are placed under timber lintels. The structure is two storeys high. There is a 19th-century wing at the front of the east end, which creates an L-plan. This wing is made of limestone and has a slate roof, with 2-light casements that have glazing bars and are set under brick cambered heads. Additionally, there is a single-storey stone outhouse with a pantiled roof located on the west gable end.
Local climate
Outhouse 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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