Claygates is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 August 1983. Cottage.
Claygates
- WRENN ID
- swift-flint-indigo
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 August 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Claygates, Wyboston, Chawston and Colesden
- OS grid reference
- TL 154 561
- Coordinates
- 52.19134, -0.31253
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Claygates is a 17th-century cottage featuring a colour washed rough cast exterior over a timber frame and a thatched roof. The building has a two-room plan and stands two storeys high. Each floor has two casement windows, all of which are 20th-century with glazing bars. A central doorway is located under a thatched gabled wood porch, aligned with a red brick ridge stack. There is a one-storey lean-to addition on the east gable end, which has a hipped thatched roof. Additionally, there is a one-storey and attic 20th-century addition on the west gable end, also thatched.
Local climate
Claygates 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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