Twin Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 June 1974. Cottage.
Twin Cottage
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-chalk-onyx
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 June 1974
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Twin Cottage, 21 Church Road, Stevington, MK43 7QB
- OS grid reference
- SP 989 533
- Coordinates
- 52.1695, -0.5539
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Twin Cottage is an early 18th-century pair of cottages located on Church Road in Stevington. The cottages are constructed from coursed limestone rubble and feature a thatched roof supported by plain bargeboards. The building is designed in an L-plan and stands two storeys high. Each storey has 19th-century casement windows set under timber lintels. At the rear, there is a modern two-storey flat-roofed extension.
Local climate
Twin Cottage 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
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1996
- No related consent applications matched
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