Fairfield Cottage Lee Wind Cottage Riverside Cottage Water End Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 August 1983. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Fairfield Cottage Lee Wind Cottage Riverside Cottage Water End Cottage
- WRENN ID
- floating-plaster-khaki
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 August 1983
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Fairfield Cottage Lee Wind Cottage Riverside Cottage Water End Cottage, St Neots Road, Renhold, MK41 0JE
- OS grid reference
- TL 104 513
- Coordinates
- 52.14921, -0.38785
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a former farmhouse, now divided into four separate houses. The building dates to the 17th and 18th centuries and is constructed of timber framing, with substantial portions rendered in colour-washed rough cast. It has an old clay tile roof, with a hipped section and a two-span arrangement to the south. The house follows a double-pile plan, with a west block built on a slightly lower level.
The north elevation features a ground floor with a four-light casement window and a two-light casement window, and a first floor with three two-light casement windows, all with glazing bars. A plank door is located to the right. The west elevation has a ground floor with one three-light and three two-light casement windows, and a first floor with five two-light casement windows, all with glazing bars. A 20th-century door is positioned to the right, sheltered by a bracketed gabled hood. A red brick stack runs along the multiple ridges. The interior retains carpenters' marks visible on some of the timbering. There is a 20th-century porch to the east, and a 20th-century single-storey addition to the south.
Local climate
Fairfield Cottage Lee Wind Cottage Riverside Cottage Water End 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 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.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 2018
- 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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