Grooms Cottage (Part of Former Oakley House Stables) is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 May 1952. Stable, house.
Grooms Cottage (Part of Former Oakley House Stables)
- WRENN ID
- silent-steel-solstice
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 May 1952
- Type
- Stable, house
- Address
- Grooms Cottage (Part of Former Oakley House Stables), the Drive, Church Lane
- OS grid reference
- TL 005 531
- Coordinates
- 52.16725, -0.5315
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Grooms Cottage, which is part of the former Oakley House stables, is a building from the late 18th century or early 19th century that has been partly converted into a house. It is constructed from coursed limestone rubble and features an old clay tile roof. The building is one storey high with attics. The right side of the cottage is slightly lower and has a hipped roof, while the left side has three gabled dormers integrated into the roof, with a fourth dormer added later at the eaves level. Additionally, there is another dormer at the right end at eaves level.
On the ground floor, there are four 2-light mullion and transom windows with glazing bars, along with two arched doorways on the left side. The right side has two doorways with fanlights; the left doorway is rectangular and the right one is arched. There are also three small, high-level 2-light casements with glazing bars.
Local climate
Grooms Cottage (Part of Former Oakley House Stables) 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, more than 50% 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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