Dove Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1984. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Dove Cottage
- WRENN ID
- under-cinder-meadow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 May 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Dove Cottage, 2, Duck End Lane, Wilstead, Wilshamstead, MK45 3HP
- OS grid reference
- TL 061 441
- Coordinates
- 52.08544, -0.45219
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dove Cottage is a 17th-century cottage located on Duck End Lane in Wilstead. The building features a timber frame that is covered in colourwashed roughcast and has a shingled roof. It has a two-room plan and consists of one storey with attics. On the ground floor, there is one four-light and one two-light casement window, while the attic includes two gabled dormers, each with two-light casements. All the casements are fitted with glazing bars. To the right side of the cottage, there is a 20th-century gabled porch. An off-centre red brick ridge stack is present, and there is a single-storeyed lean-to addition at the rear.
Local climate
Dove 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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