Church Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 August 1983. Cottages. 3 related planning applications.
Church Cottages
- WRENN ID
- western-bronze-martin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 August 1983
- Type
- Cottages
- Address
- Church Cottages, Vicarage Close, Ravensden
- OS grid reference
- TL 078 544
- Coordinates
- 52.1778, -0.42458
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Church Cottages are eighteenth-century cottages located on Church End, Vicarage Close, in Ravensden. They are built with a timber frame covered in colour-washed rough cast. The roof is corrugated asbestos. The cottages have a three-room plan, two storeys and attics, with single-storey, flat-roofed extensions to each gable end. Most windows are casements, dating to the twentieth century. A red brick stack is located on the north-west gable end, and a red brick double stack is located on the ridge.
Local climate
Church Cottages 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, fewer than 52% 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 — 7 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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