Walnut Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1984. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Walnut Tree Cottage
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-chapel-jet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- Bedford MP: Mohammad Yasin (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 May 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Walnut Tree Cottage, Cemetery Road, Kempston, MK43 8RA
- OS grid reference
- TL 018 474
- Coordinates
- 52.11563, -0.51428
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Walnut Tree Cottage is a mid-to-late 19th-century house, originally an estate cottage associated with Kempston Bury. It is built in a picturesque “cottage ornée” style. The exterior is of chequered brick with blue brick detailing, topped with a clay tile roof featuring bands of fishscale tiles.
The house is arranged in a T-shape, with one storey and attic space. The main block has two ground floor windows and two gabled dormers. A two-storey gable to the right has one window per floor. Most windows are two-light casements with cambered heads and cast iron lattice, although some ground floor windows on the right gable and elsewhere have been replaced in the 20th century. A tiled, gabled porch is centrally positioned on the main block. Decorative pierced bargeboards adorn the gables. A tablet bearing a blank shield is set into the right-hand gable above the attic window. The building features a variety of multiple and single chimney stacks.
Local climate
Walnut Tree 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 95% 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 54% 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 0.3°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 — 3 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- 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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