Maple Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 June 1974. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Maple Cottage
- WRENN ID
- silver-spire-bramble
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 June 1974
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Maple Cottage, 124, High Street, Riseley, MK44 1DF
- OS grid reference
- TL 044 630
- Coordinates
- 52.25554, -0.47114
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Maple Cottage is an 18th-century cottage located on the south-east side of Riseley High Street. It’s built with a timber frame and has been finished with colour-washed rough cast. The roof is thatched. The cottage has a 2-bay plan and is one storey high with attics. An off-centre front door is flanked by two 2-light horizontal sash windows. There are two dormers, each with a 2-light horizontal sash window. All windows have glazing bars. A one-storey lean-to extension is present at the rear.
Local climate
Maple 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 — 5 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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