Mistletoe Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 June 1974. Cottage.
Mistletoe Cottage
- WRENN ID
- inner-stair-coral
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 June 1974
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Mistletoe Cottage, 80, High Street, Riseley
- OS grid reference
- TL 041 628
- Coordinates
- 52.25355, -0.47555
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Mistletoe Cottage is an 18th-century cottage located on the southeast side of High Street in Riseley. It features a colour-washed rough cast exterior over a timber frame and has a thatched roof. The cottage has a two-room plan and is one storey with attics, oriented with the gable end facing the road. The ground floor includes two three-light leaded casement windows, while the attic has two dormers with leaded two-light horizontal sashes. There is a central front door made up of four panels. Additionally, there is a three-light leaded casement window on the road-facing gable end and a red brick chimney stack on the southeast gable. The cottage has a large 20th-century extension added to the southeast gable end.
Local climate
Mistletoe 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1998
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