31, Church Road is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1984. Cottage.
31, Church Road
- WRENN ID
- seventh-spindle-honey
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 May 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 31, Church Road, Willington, MK44 3QB
- OS grid reference
- TL 109 499
- Coordinates
- 52.13669, -0.3796
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 31 Church Road is a 17th-century cottage that features a timber frame with colourwashed brick infill and a half-hipped thatched roof. The original structure has a two-room plan and consists of one storey with attics. On the left side of the front elevation, there is a 20th-century colourwashed single-storey lean-to addition that extends beyond the left gable end, which includes five small windows and a 20th-century front door. On the right side, there is a glazed 20th-century porch, behind which is a two-light casement window with glazing bars and a glazed door. A red brick double ridge stack serves a back-to-back hearth. Additionally, there is a 20th-century single-storey tiled addition on the west gable end.
Local climate
31, Church Road 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 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% 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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