5, Northill Road is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1984. A Post-Medieval Cottage. 2 related planning applications.

5, Northill Road

WRENN ID
calm-latch-hazel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bedford
Constituency
North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 May 1984
Type
Cottage
Period
Post-Medieval
Address
5, Northill Road, Cople, MK44 3TU
OS grid reference
TL 103 484
Coordinates
52.12316, -0.38899
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 5 Northill Road is a 17th-century cottage with a timber frame and a pebbledashed exterior. It features a clay tile roof and has a two-room plan, consisting of one storey and attics. The cottage has two 2-light 20th-century casement windows on each floor, with the attic windows set in sloping-roofed dormers. A central plank door aligns with a red brick double ridge stack.

Local climate

5, Northill Road 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 89% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% 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 0.3°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 — 2 transactions since 2017
  • 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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