Bridge Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 July 1964. Cottage. 7 related planning applications.
Bridge Cottage
- WRENN ID
- tenth-lintel-thyme
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 July 1964
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Bridge Cottage, 2, New Road, Great Barford, MK44 3LQ
- OS grid reference
- TL 134 516
- Coordinates
- 52.1516, -0.3433
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bridge Cottage is an 18th-century cottage located on New Road in Great Barford. It features a colour washed rough cast exterior over a timber frame and has an old clay tile roof. The cottage has a three-bay plan, consisting of one storey and attics. On the ground floor, there are two 2-light horizontal sash windows with glazing bars, and three gabled dormers, which also have 2-light horizontal sashes. The central entrance has a 20th-century front door with a gabled wooden porch. There are red brick chimney stacks at both gable ends, with the northwest stack being external and the southeast stack being integral. Additionally, there is a 20th-century single storey addition to the northwest and a small lean-to addition at the rear.
Local climate
Bridge 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 98% 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, fewer than 53% 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 0.4°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 — 7 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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