Dean Croft is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 August 1983. Cottage.
Dean Croft
- WRENN ID
- carved-alcove-winter
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 August 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Dean Croft, Brook Lane, Dean and Shelton
- OS grid reference
- TL 045 677
- Coordinates
- 52.29756, -0.46846
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dean Croft is a cottage dating from the 18th century, located on the west side of Brook Lane in Upper Dean. The building features colour washed rough cast over a timber frame and brick construction, topped with thatch. It has a colour washed brick ridge stack and an external stack at the south gable end. Originally, the cottage had a two-bay plan, but a 20th-century bay was added to the north gable end. The structure is one storey with attics, and the ground floor has five 20th-century two-light casement windows, along with one dormer featuring a casement window. The front door, which is also from the 20th century, is located to the right of the ridge stack.
Local climate
Dean Croft 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 — 3 transactions since 2016
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