Penwrights Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1984. Cottage.
Penwrights Cottage
- WRENN ID
- pitched-latch-tide
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 May 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Penwrights Cottage, 3, Church Road, Willington
- OS grid reference
- TL 112 500
- Coordinates
- 52.13766, -0.37592
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Penwrights Cottage is a cottage dating from the 17th and 18th centuries. It features a timber framed construction that is partly rendered and colourwashed, with sections of colourwashed brick infill and areas that have been rebuilt in colourwashed brick. The cottage has a thatched roof and was originally designed with a two-bay plan, to which a later bay was added to the west. It is one storey high with attics and has three ground floor windows, along with one dormer, all featuring a variety of casements with glazing bars. A 20th-century door is located between the two right-hand bays. There is a rebuilt red brick double ridge stack situated between the two left-hand bays. At the rear, there is an 18th-century timber framed and thatched addition that is also one storey high with attics, as well as a flat-roofed 20th-century addition.
Local climate
Penwrights 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 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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