The Cottage and Nos. 29, 31 and 33 is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 July 1964. House. 2 related planning applications.
The Cottage and Nos. 29, 31 and 33
- WRENN ID
- shifting-steeple-spring
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 July 1964
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Cottage and Nos. 29, 31 and 33, High Street, Podington, NN29 7HS
- OS grid reference
- SP 941 626
- Coordinates
- 52.25356, -0.62235
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage and numbers 29, 31, and 33 form a pair of houses, with a later two-bay addition at the southwest end, built in 1773. The date is inscribed on a circular panel within the tympanum of the central pediment. The construction is of coursed limestone rubble with ironstone dressings, and the roof is covered in old clay tiles with stone gable coping. A band of ironstone runs along the ground floor window head level. The central section slightly projects and features a pediment with ironstone quoins. It contains a pedestrian archway with a deep ironstone head, flanked by two cottage doorways, all beneath a large arched panel. The side wings also have arched panels in the first floor. The windows are mostly 20th century. The northeast wing has three first-floor casement windows; the ground floor has two 20th-century bow windows and a two-light casement. The southwest wing has four first-floor casements, the right-hand one being four-light, with three casement windows and a four-light 20th-century bow window on the ground floor.
Local climate
The Cottage and Nos. 29, 31 and 33 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 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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.
- Sale history — 7 transactions since 1997
- 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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