Dalton Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 August 1983. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Dalton Cottage
- WRENN ID
- tenth-postern-swift
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 August 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Dalton Cottage, Church Lane, Upper Dean, Dean and Shelton, PE28 0NB
- OS grid reference
- TL 047 676
- Coordinates
- 52.29716, -0.46598
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dalton Cottage is a cottage dating from around 1700. It features colour washed rough cast over a timber frame, with a colour washed brick lean-to extension on the south gable end. The roof is thatched. The building has a two-bay plan and includes an integral red brick stack at the north gable end. It is one storey with attics. The front has a 20th-century casement window in the lean-to extension, an off-centre front door, and an adjoining two-light horizontal sash window with glazing bars. There is also a small two-light casement window to the right. A tiled gabled dormer contains a two-light casement, and there is a two-light horizontal sash window with glazing bars in the south gable attic.
Local climate
Dalton 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2005
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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