Cygnet Thatch is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1987. House.
Cygnet Thatch
- WRENN ID
- muffled-cornice-snow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Cygnet Thatch, Radwell Green, Felmersham
- OS grid reference
- TL 004 574
- Coordinates
- 52.20658, -0.53183
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cygnet Thatch is a 17th-century house that has been modernised. It is built of coursed limestone rubble and features a thatched roof. The house likely follows a traditional three-room plan and has a front door located opposite a back-to-back hearth. The building is two storeys high and has two modern windows on each floor, with the ground floor windows featuring heavy wooden lintels.
Local climate
Cygnet Thatch 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 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% 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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