Ivy Cottage Palmers Cottage Virginia Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1987. Terraced houses.
Ivy Cottage Palmers Cottage Virginia Cottage
- WRENN ID
- stark-moulding-stoat
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1987
- Type
- Terraced houses
- Address
- Ivy Cottage Palmers Cottage Virginia Cottage, High Street, Turvey
- OS grid reference
- SP 943 524
- Coordinates
- 52.16255, -0.62157
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Virginia Cottage, Ivy Cottage, and Palmers Cottage are a terrace group of three houses with an adjoining outbuilding, located on the north side of Turvey High Street. The easternmost house, Virginia Cottage, is dated 1825 and constructed of coursed limestone rubble with a slate roof. Virginia Cottage features two storeys and attics, while the other two houses are two storeys high. The middle house slightly projects forward and has a flat-roofed dormer with a three-light casement window that includes glazing bars. It also has a similarly styled window on the ground floor. Virginia Cottage has two three-light casements on each floor and a central doorway. The western house mirrors this symmetrical arrangement. At the western end, there is an outbuilding with double barn doors.
Local climate
Ivy Cottage Palmers Cottage Virginia 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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