Green End Farm Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 August 1983. Cottage.
Green End Farm Cottage
- WRENN ID
- floating-pediment-tide
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 August 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Green End Farm Cottage, Green Lane, Swineshead
- OS grid reference
- TL 053 655
- Coordinates
- 52.27844, -0.45739
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Green End Farm Cottage is a cottage dating from the 17th and 19th centuries. It features pebbledash over a timber frame and has a chequered brick casing on the south gable end, topped with a thatched roof. The cottage has a two-room plan, is one storey high with attics, and includes a red brick integral stack on the north gable end. There is a 19th-century one-storey extension on the north gable end, constructed of chequered brick with a pantiled roof. The east elevation has a central front door, one two-light casement window, and one two-light horizontal sash window with glazing bars. There is also a dormer featuring a two-light horizontal sash window with glazing bars, and the extension includes a two-light casement window with a cambered head.
Local climate
Green End Farm 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 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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