Maple Cottage the Maples is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1987. House, cottage. 1 related planning application.
Maple Cottage the Maples
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-vestry-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1987
- Type
- House, cottage
- Address
- Maple Cottage the Maples, 36, High Street, Harrold, MK43 7DQ
- OS grid reference
- SP 953 568
- Coordinates
- 52.20197, -0.60604
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Maple Cottage and The Maples are an early 19th-century house and cottage located on the north side of Harrold High Street. The buildings are constructed from coursed limestone rubble and feature a banded plain and fishscale tile roof with gable coping. They rise two storeys with attics, and there is a 20th-century box dormer. The first floor has five leaded casement windows with mullions and a transom, all beneath drip moulds. On the ground floor, there are two similar casement windows alongside a central bay window. The Maples includes a 20th-century stone gabled porch, while Maple Cottage has a shallow bracketed doorhood.
Local climate
Maple Cottage the Maples 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 EPC on record for this property
- 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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