Old Rectory Cottage 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.
Old Rectory Cottage
- WRENN ID
- keen-spandrel-fen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 August 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Old Rectory Cottage, Shelton Hall Road, Shelton, Dean and Shelton, PE28 0NP
- OS grid reference
- TL 033 688
- Coordinates
- 52.30788, -0.48589
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Rectory Cottage is a 17th-century cottage located on Shelton Hall Road, Dean and Shelton. It is constructed with a timber frame and rough cast rendering, featuring a clay tile roof. The building has red brick stacks, one on the ridge and another at the north gable end. The original design was a two-bay, lobby entrance plan. The front of the cottage has two two-light horizontal sash windows with glazing bars and moulded frames on each floor. A four-panel door is set within a moulded wooden surround. A 20th-century gabled brick porch has been added, and a later brick addition, with a parallel gable ridge, extends to the rear.
Local climate
Old Rectory 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 96% 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 52% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2012
- 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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