Pixie Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1987. A C17 Cottage.
Pixie Cottage
- WRENN ID
- rooted-vault-ash
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Pixie Cottage, 9, Memorial Lane, Bletsoe
- OS grid reference
- TL 021 581
- Coordinates
- 52.21197, -0.50575
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Pixie Cottage is a 17th-century cottage located on Bletsoe Memorial Lane. It features a timber frame with colourwashed plaster infill and a limestone rubble chimney topped with thatch. The cottage has a two-room plan originally divided by a chimney, although the right-hand room has been demolished. It is one storey high with attics and includes one leaded casement window. The chimney has a square stack set diagonally on a square base.
Local climate
Pixie 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1996
- No related consent applications matched
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