Rowan Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1987. House.
Rowan Cottage
- WRENN ID
- peeling-passage-fen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Rowan Cottage, 38, High Street, Carlton and Chellington, MK43 7LA
- OS grid reference
- SP 953 552
- Coordinates
- 52.18749, -0.60662
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rowan Cottage is a house dated 1740, as indicated by a plaque on the east gable end. It is constructed of coursed limestone rubble and features a steeply pitched roof with stone gable coping and moulded kneelers, which is now covered with Welsh slates. The cottage has a symmetrical three-window bay plan with the gable end facing the road and gable end chimney stacks. It is two storeys tall with attics.
On the south elevation, there are two 20th-century box dormer windows. The first floor includes three casement windows with glazing bars, two of which are three-light windows, while the central window is a two-light. The ground floor has two 20th-century bay windows flanking a central doorway. At the west end, there is a small two-light casement window with glazing bars. The east gable end features a single-storey lean-to made of coursed limestone rubble, topped with a 20th-century concrete tile roof. The east wall has been rebuilt in 20th-century stonework.
Local climate
Rowan Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% 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 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% 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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