Garden Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1987. Estate cottage. 1 related planning application.
Garden Cottage
- WRENN ID
- low-window-birch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1987
- Type
- Estate cottage
- Address
- Garden Cottage, Church Lane, Pavenham, MK43 7PU
- OS grid reference
- SP 990 559
- Coordinates
- 52.19254, -0.55234
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Garden Cottage is a picturesque estate cottage dating from around 1860. It is built of coursed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings and features an old clay tile roof with moulded stone eaves brackets. The cottage has an L-plan layout and consists of one storey with attics. The gable ends have pierced, curling bargeboards with drop finials. The entrance front has a central projecting gable with moulded kneelers at the eaves. The windows are honeycomb pattern cast iron set in ashlar surrounds, with a single light casement in the first floor gable end. The ground floor includes a canted bay window to the left and a two-light mullioned casement to the right. The central doorway is topped with a gabled openwork hood supported by stone pilasters.
Local climate
Garden 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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- No sale records on file
- 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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