Rectory Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1987. House. 1 related planning application.
Rectory Cottage
- WRENN ID
- bitter-quoin-mist
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Rectory Cottage, Church Lane, Oakley, MK43 7RU
- OS grid reference
- TL 010 529
- Coordinates
- 52.16544, -0.52409
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rectory Cottage is a house dating back to the 16th century, which has been altered and extended in the 19th and 20th centuries. The timber-frame gable ends are now rendered over. The two-storey facade features two 3-light casement windows with Gothic arched heads on each floor of the original building. A 20th-century flat-roofed conservatory obscures the right-hand ground floor window. A 20th-century extension to the left-hand side has glazed double doors on the ground floor and a 3-light window to the first floor; its gable end has a single light window on both ground and first floors. A 20th-century gabled wing is located to the right-hand side, and a central 20th-century porch has been added. The house is situated immediately behind the churchyard. The rear elevation has two small horizontal sash windows and a ground floor 3-light leaded casement matching those on the facade.
Local climate
Rectory 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 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2005
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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