St Mary's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 April 1984. House.

St Mary's Cottage

WRENN ID
twelfth-rubble-spindle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bedford
Constituency
North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 April 1984
Type
House
Address
St Mary's Cottage, Church Lane, Oakley
OS grid reference
TL 009 529
Coordinates
52.16591, -0.52476
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

St Mary's Cottage is an early 17th century timber-framed house that was remodeled in the 19th century. The exterior was pebbledashed during this time. It features an old clay tile roof with plain bargeboards and drop finials, and the chimney stack has paired hexagonal flues. The building has a T-plan layout with a jettied main wing and a cross wing on the right side. It is one storey with attics. The jettied wing includes a gabled dormer with a small-paned oriel window and a ground floor three-light casement window. There is a lean-to porch at the angle of the wings. The cross wing has a first floor canted oriel window and a ground floor three-light casement window beneath a drip mould. At the rear, there is a one storey lean-to built of gault brick with a hipped clay tile roof. The west end features another Victorian gault brick lean-to with a half-hipped roof, and the west elevation gable has a canted bay. Inside, the original house contains a fireplace made of limestone and Totternhoe clunch.

Local climate

St Mary's 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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