Lilac Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 August 1983. Cottage.
Lilac Cottage
- WRENN ID
- muffled-chamber-ivory
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 August 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Lilac Cottage, High Street, Swineshead
- OS grid reference
- TL 057 658
- Coordinates
- 52.28034, -0.45096
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lilac Cottage is an 18th-century cottage located on the south side of High Street in Swineshead. The exterior features colour washed pebble-dash over a timber frame and is topped with a pantiled roof. The cottage has a two-room plan and originally included an external gable end red brick stack on the east side, which is now enclosed within a small, slightly later timber-framed bay. A two-storey bay was added to the west gable end in the 20th century. The cottage has three 2-light casements with glazing bars on each floor, an open gabled porch, and a plank door.
Local climate
Lilac 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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- Sale history — 6 transactions since 2000
- No related consent applications matched
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