Sailors Bridge Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 March 1981. Cottage.
Sailors Bridge Cottages
- WRENN ID
- pale-floor-elder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- Bedford MP: Mohammad Yasin (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 March 1981
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Sailors Bridge Cottages, Woburn Road, Kempston
- OS grid reference
- TL 027 464
- Coordinates
- 52.10656, -0.50172
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sailors Bridge Cottages are a pair of cottages that were once part of the Hoo estate, dated 1865 as indicated by a plaque on the southwest gable. They are designed in the cottage ornee style, featuring chequered red brick with yellow brick dressings and fishscale tile roofs. The cottages are arranged in an L-plan, consisting of one storey and attics, with single-storeyed outhouse blocks to the north. Each cottage has two windows on the ground floor and three gabled dormers in the attic, all fitted with 20th-century two-light casements. A central gabled porch, which was rebuilt in the 20th century, is present. Aside from the porch, the gables maintain their original carved finials and bargeboards, which display cusps and floral decorations.
Local climate
Sailors Bridge 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 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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