Meeting Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 August 1983. Cottage.
Meeting Cottage
- WRENN ID
- rusted-tallow-dock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 August 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Meeting Cottage, Riseley Road, Bolnhurst and Keysoe
- OS grid reference
- TL 073 631
- Coordinates
- 52.25582, -0.42901
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Meeting Cottage is an 18th-century cottage located on Riseley Road in Brook End, Keysoe. The building features colour washed rough cast over a timber frame, with a red brick gable end and an integral stack to the west. It has a thatched roof and consists of two bays that are two storeys high, along with one bay that is one storey and has attics to the east. The main block includes two windows on each floor, while the east block has a 20th-century front door located under a gabled porch, one ground floor window, and one dormer. All windows are 2-light casements with glazing bars. There is also a 20th-century flat-roofed extension at the rear.
Local climate
Meeting 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 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% 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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