Fir Tree Cottage the Gable End is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1987. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Fir Tree Cottage the Gable End
- WRENN ID
- haunted-rubble-mist
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Fir Tree Cottage the Gable End, 61, High Street, Stagsden, MK43 8SG
- OS grid reference
- SP 981 488
- Coordinates
- 52.12956, -0.5675
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fir Tree Cottage, also known as The Gable End, is a cottage that dates back to the 17th or 18th century and has been modernised. It features a colourwashed roughcast exterior and a thatched roof. The building is one storey high with attics, and it has two gabled dormers, each containing a 2-light casement window with glazing bars. The ground floor has modern casement windows.
Local climate
Fir Tree Cottage the Gable End sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% 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 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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