Oak Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 August 1983. A Early Modern Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Oak Cottage
- WRENN ID
- frozen-chamber-vermeil
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 August 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Period
- Early Modern
- Address
- Oak Cottage, Ravensden
- OS grid reference
- TL 077 543
- Coordinates
- 52.17695, -0.42529
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Oak Cottage is a 17th-century cottage located in Church End, Ravensden. It features a timber frame with colour washed brick infill, and the ground floor front elevation has been rebuilt in colour washed brick. The cottage has a thatched roof and a main block with a three-bay plan, consisting of one storey and attics. There are two 20th-century three-light casement windows and two dormers with 20th-century casements. A central rendered double ridge stack is present, along with an off-centre front door that has a moulded surround. To the northwest, there is a later one-storey block that is also timber framed with colour washed brick infill, a thatched roof, and features 20th-century casements and a door.
Local climate
Oak 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, fewer than 52% 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 0.3°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 — 4 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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