297, Southill Road is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 July 1964. Cottage. 4 related planning applications.
297, Southill Road
- WRENN ID
- broken-porch-alder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 July 1964
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 297, Southill Road, Cardington
- OS grid reference
- TL 087 476
- Coordinates
- 52.11685, -0.4132
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 297 on Southill Road is a 17th-century cottage constructed with a timber frame and a roughcast exterior, topped by an old clay tile roof. The building features a two-room plan and is one storey with attics. On the ground floor, there are two 3-light casement windows with leaded lights. The attic includes two gabled dormers, each with 2-light casements that have glazing bars. A plank door aligns with a red brick double ridge stack, and there is a circular plaque panel above the door, although no lettering is visible. At the rear, there is a lean-to addition.
Local climate
297, Southill Road 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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