Home Cottage 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.
Home Cottage
- WRENN ID
- quartered-crypt-gold
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 August 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Home Cottage, Church Lane, Melchbourne and Yielden, MK44 1AU
- OS grid reference
- TL 012 671
- Coordinates
- 52.29329, -0.51625
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Home Cottage is a 17th century cottage that was originally two separate dwellings. It features a timber frame with colour washed plaster and has a northeast gable end along with an adjoining external chimney stack made of colour washed brick. The roof is thatched. The cottage has a three-room plan and is one storey high with attics. There is a colour washed brick double ridge stack that serves back-to-back hearths.
On the southeast elevation, there is one two-light casement window and two three-light casement windows, all with glazing bars. The northwest elevation has three three-light casement windows and one gabled dormer, which also contains a three-light casement window. All four windows feature leaded lights and moulded mullions.
Local climate
Home 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 96% 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 52% 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 — 2 transactions since 1995
- 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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