Sycamore Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 August 1983. Cottage.
Sycamore Cottage
- WRENN ID
- stark-latch-weasel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 August 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Sycamore Cottage, 62, High Street, Thurleigh
- OS grid reference
- TL 057 584
- Coordinates
- 52.21417, -0.45412
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sycamore Cottage is an 18th-century cottage located on the south side of High Street in Thurleigh. The building features a colour-washed rough cast exterior over a timber frame and has a thatched roof with the gable end facing the road. It has a two-room plan, with a third room added towards the road. The cottage is one storey high with attics, and the east elevation includes three dormers. All windows on the ground floor and in the dormers are casements with glazing bars. There is a 20th-century gabled porch, and the cottage has two gable end stacks and one ridge stack, all made of red brick.
Local climate
Sycamore 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 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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