Watts Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1987. House.
Watts Cottage
- WRENN ID
- iron-bastion-summer
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Watts Cottage, Vicarage Lane, Podington, NN29 7HR
- OS grid reference
- SP 943 624
- Coordinates
- 52.25216, -0.61976
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Watts Cottage is an 18th-century, two-bay house with an additional bay added to the south end. It is constructed of coursed limestone rubble and features a thatched roof that is hipped at the south end. The building has one storey and attics, and includes two red brick gabled dormers with tiled roofs and tiled surrounds in the main roof. On the ground floor, there are two windows flanking a central doorway. However, all window openings are currently boarded up, so the original style of the windows is unknown.
Local climate
Watts Cottage 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 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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 — 4 transactions since 1997
- No related consent applications matched
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