Glen Cottage Wayside is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 August 1983. Cottage.
Glen Cottage Wayside
- WRENN ID
- pitched-casement-magpie
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 August 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Glen Cottage Wayside, Bolnhurst and Keysoe
- OS grid reference
- TL 077 611
- Coordinates
- 52.23775, -0.4239
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Glen Cottage and Wayside are a pair of cottages dating from around 1700. Glen Cottage features colour washed rough cast over a timber frame, while Wayside has a timber frame with colour washed plaster infill. Both cottages have thatched roofs and consist of two bays, with one storey. There is a red brick double ridge stack at the division between the two. Glen Cottage has casement windows, while Wayside has a 2-light horizontal sash window and a fixed light. Both cottages have 20th-century doors, and Wayside includes a 20th-century gabled porch.
Local climate
Glen Cottage Wayside 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 97% 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, fewer than 52% 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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