Orchard Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 August 1983. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Orchard Cottage
- WRENN ID
- keen-mullion-rush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 August 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Orchard Cottage, Ravensden, MK44 2RL
- OS grid reference
- TL 075 540
- Coordinates
- 52.17432, -0.42882
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Orchard Cottage is a 17th-century cottage located on Church End in Ravensden. It is constructed with a timber frame and rough cast rendering, and has a thatched roof. The original plan comprised three rooms, with a single storey and attics. The cottage has been extended with two rectangular bays added in the 20th century, each with a thatched hipped hood. There are three dormers to the roof, all featuring 20th-century casement windows, alongside a small casement window. A 20th-century porch with a hipped thatched hood sits off-centre on the front. Two integral gable end stacks are visible. Colour washed brick and pantiled outbuildings are attached to the southwest gable end.
Local climate
Orchard 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 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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