Lea Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 June 1952. House.
Lea Cottage
- WRENN ID
- silent-granite-dock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- Bedford MP: Mohammad Yasin (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 June 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- Lea Cottage, 13, Cardington Road
- OS grid reference
- TL 052 493
- Coordinates
- 52.1327, -0.46398
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lea Cottage is an early 17th-century building located on the south side of Cardington Road. It is constructed of stucco and features an old tile roof. The cottage is two storeys high and has two double-hung sash windows. On the ground floor, there are two early 19th-century canted bays with cornices. The entrance is highlighted by a wooden door surround that includes an architrave, frieze, and cornice. Lea Cottage is part of a group with Nos 11 to 15 (odd).
Local climate
Lea 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 95% 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 54% 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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