Parish Cottage Parish Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1984. Parish hall, house. 1 related planning application.
Parish Cottage Parish Hall
- WRENN ID
- late-paling-azure
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 May 1984
- Type
- Parish hall, house
- Address
- Parish Cottage Parish Hall, Southill Road, Cardington, MK44 3SX
- OS grid reference
- TL 086 476
- Coordinates
- 52.11658, -0.41429
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Parish Cottage and Parish Hall is a former industrial school and mistress's house, now serving as a parish hall and residence. It was built by the daughters of S.C. Whitbread to train girls for domestic service and opened in 1862. The building features mottled red brick with yellow brick and ashlar dressings, topped with slate roofs.
The house is a two-storey structure with attics, presenting an asymmetrical block. A single-storey schoolroom block projects to the west. The schoolroom has two 2-light casements with diamond leading on the left, and a five-bay verandah supported by wood on the right, with the left bay enclosed as a wood porch that has French windows. All openings in the schoolroom have 4-centred arched heads containing two pointed arches with diamond leading.
The house has a left-hand recessed bay with a doorway featuring a bracketed gabled wood hood with a finial, and a single-light casement above. A projecting gable includes a canted bay on the ground floor, a 2-light casement with a hood mould and decorative stops on the first floor, and a small almond-shaped window in the attic. The right-hand recessed block has one single-light casement per floor and a lean-to block within the angle that has a similar casement. The openings in the house have more angular 4-centred arched heads compared to those in the schoolroom. The building is topped with paired and multiple chimney stacks, all set diagonally and featuring moulded cornices.
Local climate
Parish Cottage Parish Hall 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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