Lavender 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.
Lavender Cottage
- WRENN ID
- odd-flagstone-blackthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 August 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Lavender Cottage, Pertenhall Road, Bolnhurst and Keysoe, MK44 2HR
- OS grid reference
- TL 077 634
- Coordinates
- 52.25834, -0.42318
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lavender Cottage is a cottage dating from around 1700. It features a colour washed rough cast exterior over a timber frame and has a thatched roof. The building has a three-room layout and is one storey with attics. There are three windows on the ground floor and three dormers above, all fitted with 20th-century casements. A colour washed brick double ridge stack is present. To the north gable end, there is a 20th-century lean-to extension that includes a 20th-century thatched porch and door at the intersection. The south gable end has a 20th-century hipped thatched porch. Additionally, there is a 20th-century one-storey and attic addition at the rear.
Local climate
Lavender 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 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% 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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- 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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