North End Farm Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1987. Cottage.
North End Farm Cottages
- WRENN ID
- low-gallery-honey
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- North End Farm Cottages, Bletsoe
- OS grid reference
- TL 025 591
- Coordinates
- 52.22087, -0.4995
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
North End Farm Cottages is a 17th century house that was modernised and extended in the 1940s. The building features roughcast over a timber frame and has a pantiled roof that replaced the earlier thatch. It has a four bay plan, which includes a central double sided hearth, and is two storeys high. There is one three-light casement window with leaded lights.
Local climate
North End Farm 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 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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