Rockery is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 August 1983. Cottage.
Rockery
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-groin-furze
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 August 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Rockery, City Lane, Colmworth
- OS grid reference
- TL 110 591
- Coordinates
- 52.21957, -0.37596
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rockery is a 17th-century cottage featuring colour washed rough cast over a timber frame and a pantiled roof. The building has a two-room plan and is one storey high with attics. It includes two 20th-century casement windows and a 20th-century door aligned with a red brick double ridge stack. There are later brick lean-to additions, partially colour washed, on the south and east elevations.
Local climate
Rockery 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.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1998
- No related consent applications matched
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