17, Thorncote Green is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 March 1985. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
17, Thorncote Green
- WRENN ID
- tilted-corridor-sepia
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 March 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 17, Thorncote Green, Northill, SG19 1PU
- OS grid reference
- TL 152 476
- Coordinates
- 52.11493, -0.31804
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 17 Thorncote Green is a 17th-century cottage featuring colourwashed roughcast render over a timber frame and a thatched roof. The building has a two-room plan and is one storey with attics. The front elevation includes two 2-light casement windows and a 20th-century gabled porch. There is a red brick double ridge stack that serves back-to-back hearths. A single-storeyed gabled wing projects from the left-hand side, and there is a 20th-century lean-to addition on the south gable end. Inside, the right-hand ground floor room has a moulded spine beam.
Local climate
17, Thorncote Green 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 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% 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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- 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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