Dog House is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1984. House. 1 related planning application.

Dog House

WRENN ID
burning-paling-pine
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bedford
Constituency
North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 May 1984
Type
House
Address
Dog House, Bedford Road, Cople, MK44 3TR
OS grid reference
TL 100 492
Coordinates
52.13058, -0.39318
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

House. Built in the early 19th century. The house is constructed of yellow brick with a hipped slate roof. It follows a symmetrical double-pile plan over two storeys, with a single-storey service wing projecting from the rear and a flat-roofed 20th-century single-storey addition also to the rear. The front elevation features brick pilasters at the corners and a projecting central bay, with deep, bracketed eaves. A projecting rectangular bay window is centrally located on the ground floor; it has a three-light sash window with half-columns at the corners. The two flanking ground floor windows, and the three first-floor windows, are all sash windows set beneath flat arches. All sash windows contain glazing bars. A central quadruple ridge stack is present. The side elevations mirror the front, with a projecting bay near the front elevation and, closest to the rear, a six-panel door topped by a rectangular fanlight. This door is flanked by half-columns that curve forward without capitals to form brackets supporting a flat hood, a distinctive regional architectural feature noted by Pevsner. The first floor features sash windows similar to those on the front elevation.

Local climate

Dog House 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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  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 2009
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
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