Church Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 July 1964. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Church Cottage
- WRENN ID
- seventh-fireplace-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 July 1964
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Church Cottage, Park Road, Melchbourne and Yielden, MK44 1BB
- OS grid reference
- TL 028 653
- Coordinates
- 52.27679, -0.4935
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Church Cottage is a 17th-century cottage located in Melchbourne, near Yielden, on Park Road. The building is constructed with a timber frame and plaster, with a colour-washed finish. It has a thatched roof. The cottage follows a T-plan form, with a central red brick chimney stack. It is two storeys high. The east elevation's left bay features a sash window on the ground floor. Above it is a 2-light casement window. A central projecting wing contains a 20th-century doorway and a 2-light casement window on the first floor. All windows have glazing bars. The right bay includes a 20th-century single-storey lean-to extension.
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 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- 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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