Kylemore Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 October 1977. House.
Kylemore Cottage
- WRENN ID
- half-clay-birch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 October 1977
- Type
- House
- Address
- Kylemore Cottage, Hardwick End, Bolnhurst and Keysoe
- OS grid reference
- TL 061 623
- Coordinates
- 52.24928, -0.44623
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Kylemore Cottage is a house dating from the 16th century, with later alterations. It is timber framed with some plaster infill, brick casing, and rough casing, all of which is colour washed except for some exposed timbering on the northeast wing. The cottage has a thatched roof and features an original open hall and cross-wing plan. The hall was floored in the mid-17th century and is now one storey with attics.
On the southwest elevation, there is one two-light casement window on each floor of the cross-wing. The main block has one small casement and two two-light casements on the ground floor, along with a dormer featuring a two-light horizontal sash window and an off-centre plank door. A red brick ridge stack is present, and both blocks have half-hipped roofs. The northeast gable end of the cross-wing is jettied and has an external brick stack.
Local climate
Kylemore 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2015
- No related consent applications matched
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings