Novel Hovel is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 August 1983. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Novel Hovel
- WRENN ID
- stony-flint-candle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 August 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Novel Hovel, 6, High Street, Thurleigh, MK44 2DB
- OS grid reference
- TL 051 585
- Coordinates
- 52.21475, -0.46197
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an 18th-century cottage located on the south side of Thurleigh High Street. It is constructed with a timber frame and colour-washed plaster, and has a thatched roof. The cottage has a three-room plan and comprises a single storey with attic space. The ground floor has two three-light horizontal sash windows with glazing bars, and one two-light horizontal sash window with glazing bars. Two gabled dormers, also with tiled roofs, each contain a two-light horizontal sash window with glazing bars. A part-glazed front door is present. There is one red brick double ridge stack and one red brick gable stack to the west. A single-storey thatched extension, built at the west end, features two 20th-century casement windows.
Local climate
Novel Hovel 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, more than 50% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2010
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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