Hope Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 August 1983. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Hope Cottage
- WRENN ID
- unlit-turret-merlin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 August 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Hope Cottage, 38, High Street, Roxton, MK44 3EB
- OS grid reference
- TL 152 545
- Coordinates
- 52.17695, -0.31633
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hope Cottage is a cottage dating to circa 1700. It is constructed with a timber frame, colour washed and rendered, set beneath a thatched roof which is hipped at the east end. The cottage follows a 4-room plan and has one storey. It features five 2-light horizontal sash windows with glazing bars. There are two 4-panel flush doors. A red brick ridge stack is located centrally. The cottage has a one-storey and attic appearance. A colour-washed addition with a thatched roof was added to the west gable end in the 20th century.
Local climate
Hope 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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