Rafters is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 June 1974. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Rafters
- WRENN ID
- quiet-truss-merlin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 June 1974
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Rafters, 151, High Street, Riseley, MK44 1DR
- OS grid reference
- TL 046 633
- Coordinates
- 52.25816, -0.46838
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rafters is a 17th-century cottage located on the north-west side of High Street in Riseley. It features a timber frame with colour washed plaster infill and a thatched roof. The cottage has a three-room plan and is one storey high with attics. On the south-west elevation, the ground floor includes one sash window, one fixed light where a doorway used to be, and one two-light horizontal sash window with leaded lights. There is also a dormer with a leaded two-light horizontal sash window. A 20th-century door is present, along with one-storey extensions on the north-west and north-east elevations.
Local climate
Rafters 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 — 3 transactions since 2013
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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