Compton Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1984. Cottage.
Compton Cottage
- WRENN ID
- weathered-chapel-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 May 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Compton Cottage, 12, Ivy Lane, Wilshamstead
- OS grid reference
- TL 074 435
- Coordinates
- 52.08017, -0.43359
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Compton Cottage is an 18th-century cottage constructed with a timber frame and finished with colourwashed roughcast render. It features a thatched roof and has a two-room plan, consisting of one storey and attics. On the ground floor, there are two casement windows, and the attic has two eyebrow dormers, each with casement windows. All the windows are 20th-century, consisting of two lights with diamond leading. The cottage has a central 20th-century tiled gabled porch. Additionally, there is a red brick central ridge stack and a red brick external stack on the north gable, along with 20th-century lean-to additions at the rear.
Local climate
Compton 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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