Rectory Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 February 1980. House. 1 related planning application.
Rectory Cottage
- WRENN ID
- errant-wattle-quill
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 February 1980
- Type
- House
- Address
- Rectory Cottage, 10 and 12, Rectory Road, Meppershall, SG17 5NB
- OS grid reference
- TL 136 360
- Coordinates
- 52.01159, -0.34498
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rectory Cottage is a house, originally two separate properties, dating to the 17th century or earlier. It is timber-framed with colourwashed plaster infill, and has a thatched roof, hipped at the south end. Number 10 is a single storey with attics, comprising three rooms, while number 12 is two storeys and consists of two rooms. The windows are a variety of casement types, all with leaded lights. A 20th-century part-glazed plank door is located at number 12. A red brick ridge stack is situated near the junction with the left-hand block, and a red brick integral stack is set into the rear wall of the lower block's right-hand bay. The rear elevation features outshot and eyebrow dormers.
Local climate
Rectory Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% 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 — 4 transactions since 1996
- 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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