The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 August 1983. Cottage.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- tall-parapet-willow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 August 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Cottage, Little Staughton
- OS grid reference
- TL 100 625
- Coordinates
- 52.25039, -0.38891
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a 17th-century cottage located in Little Staughton. It features a colour washed rough cast exterior over a timber frame and has a thatched half-hipped roof. The building consists of three bays and is one storey high with attics. On the ground floor, there are three 20th-century casement windows, and the roof includes two dormers with two-light horizontal sash windows. There are colour washed brick stacks at the ridge and on the west gable end. Additionally, there is a lean-to addition on the east gable end.
Local climate
The 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 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% 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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