The Little Pyghtle is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 August 1983. Cottage. 1 related planning application.

The Little Pyghtle

WRENN ID
shifting-merlon-holly
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bedford
Constituency
North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 August 1983
Type
Cottage
Address
The Little Pyghtle, Pertenhall Road, Bolnhurst and Keysoe, MK44 2HR
OS grid reference
TL 076 633
Coordinates
52.2577, -0.42368
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Little Pyghtle is an 18th-century cottage located on Pertenhall Road in Brook End, Keysoe. It features a timber frame with colour washed plaster infill and has a 20th-century asbestos roof topped with pierced clay ridge cresting. The cottage has a three-bay plan, with the northeast bay being a 20th-century addition. It is one storey high with attics, and has two ground floor windows and one box dormer, all fitted with two-light horizontal sashes that have diamond leading. The entrance door is located in the right-hand bay, and there is a red brick ridge stack, which is a gable end stack predating the later addition. Additionally, there is a single-storey addition at the rear.

Local climate

The Little Pyghtle 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 92% 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
  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2016
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • 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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