Walnut Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1984. House.
Walnut Cottage
- WRENN ID
- other-bailey-smoke
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- Bedford MP: Mohammad Yasin (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 May 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Walnut Cottage, 38, High Street, Kempston
- OS grid reference
- TL 026 474
- Coordinates
- 52.11569, -0.50241
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Walnut Cottage is a 17th-century house located on High Street in Kempston Urban. It features a timber frame with a colourwashed roughcast exterior and a clay tile roof. The building has a three-room plan and consists of one storey with attics. On the ground floor, there are two three-light casement windows flanking a four-panel door. The attic includes a gabled dormer with a two-light casement window. An external red brick stack is positioned at the west gable end, while a red brick double ridge stack, which is partly rendered, is located at the division between the two eastern bays. A 20th-century single-storey addition projects from the eastern end of the front.
Local climate
Walnut 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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