Church Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 June 1974. House. 1 related planning application.
Church Cottage
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-nave-myrtle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 June 1974
- Type
- House
- Address
- Church Cottage, Old Church House, 4, Church Road, Wilstead, Wilshamstead, MK45 3HH
- OS grid reference
- TL 063 435
- Coordinates
- 52.07991, -0.44996
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Church Cottage is a house dating from the 17th century. It features a timber-framed construction, although the ground floor studs have been removed and replaced with 20th-century brick, while the first floor has colourwashed plaster infill. The roof is covered with clay tiles. The building has a five-bay plan and stands two storeys high. On the ground floor, there are two three-light and two two-light casement windows, and on the first floor, there are four two-light casements, all from the 20th century and fitted with leaded lights. A 20th-century door is located in the second bay from the left. Additionally, there is a red brick external stack that has been rebuilt on the south gable end.
Local climate
Church 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 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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