Chicheley Cottage Church Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 August 1983. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Chicheley Cottage Church Cottage
- WRENN ID
- lesser-chalk-ridge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 August 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Chicheley Cottage Church Cottage, Spring Lane, Melchbourne and Yielden, MK44 1AT
- OS grid reference
- TL 011 671
- Coordinates
- 52.29282, -0.51806
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Chicheley Cottage and Church Cottage are 17th century cottages located in Yielden. They feature a color-washed rough cast exterior on a timber frame and are topped with thatch. The cottages have a three-room layout and are one storey with attics. There are two red brick ridge stacks, one single and one double. The front door of Chicheley Cottage aligns with the double stack. On the ground floor, there are three 2-light horizontal sash windows with glazing bars. The roof includes three dormers; two on the left with 2-light leaded casements and one on the right with a horizontal sash window featuring glazing bars.
Local climate
Chicheley Cottage Church 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 96% 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 52% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 1997
- 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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