Aubretia Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 August 1983. Cottage.
Aubretia Cottage
- WRENN ID
- watchful-stronghold-stoat
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 August 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Aubretia Cottage, Wyboston, Chawston and Colesden
- OS grid reference
- TL 147 559
- Coordinates
- 52.1903, -0.32242
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Aubretia Cottage is a cottage dating from around 1700. It is timber framed, featuring weather boarding on the ground floor and colour washed rough cast above. The cottage has a thatched roof and a two-room plan, consisting of one storey and attics. On the ground floor, there are two casement windows. A red brick ridge stack is present, and there is a lean-to weather boarded extension to the east. Additionally, there is a one-storey thatched addition to the west, which has two windows; the right-hand window is a two-light horizontal sash, and there is a red brick gable end stack.
Local climate
Aubretia 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 98% 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 53% 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 0.4°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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