Russet Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1984. House. 3 related planning applications.
Russet Cottage
- WRENN ID
- lone-chapel-thyme
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- Bedford MP: Mohammad Yasin (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 May 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Russet Cottage, 5, Church Walk, Kempston, MK42 7BL
- OS grid reference
- TL 023 473
- Coordinates
- 52.11519, -0.50717
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Russet Cottage is a house, likely once part of a pair, dating from the 18th century. It features colour washed rough cast over a timber frame, with the western elevation's ground floor rebuilt in brick, also colourwashed. The roof is covered in clay tiles. The building has a four-room plan and is two storeys high. On the eastern elevation, there are a variety of two-light casement windows, with four on each floor. A part-glazed door is located between the two left-hand bays, sheltered by a hipped porch from the 20th century. A red brick double ridge stack is positioned at the centre, originally marking the division between the two cottages. There is a lean-to addition at the southern gabled end, and a large 20th-century wing extends westward from the northern end of the western elevation.
Local climate
Russet 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 95% 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 54% 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 — 3 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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