Summer Song is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 August 1983. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Summer Song
- WRENN ID
- final-portal-tallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 August 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Summer Song, Bolnhurst and Keysoe, MK44 2JF
- OS grid reference
- TL 073 610
- Coordinates
- 52.23715, -0.42933
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Summer Song is a cottage dating from the 18th century. It features colour washed rough cast over cob construction and has a thatched roof. The building has a two-room plan and is two storeys high. There are two red brick gable end stacks, with the western stack being external and the eastern stack being integral. Each floor has two 2-light casements. The front door is slightly off-centre and is sheltered by an open porch with a hipped thatched roof.
Local climate
Summer Song 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 97% 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 52% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1996
- 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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