Willow Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. House. 2 related planning applications.
Willow Cottage
- WRENN ID
- dreaming-pediment-onyx
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Luton South and South Bedfordshire MP: Rachel Hopkins (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Willow Cottage, Eaton Bray, LU6 2HN
- OS grid reference
- SP 975 203
- Coordinates
- 51.87308, -0.58479
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Willow Cottage is a 17th-century building that has been modernised. It features a visible timber frame with colour-washed brick infill and a projecting gable on the left side. The roof is covered with old clay tiles and is hipped on the right side. There is a central stack with a modern brick top, and the cottage has modern windows with leaded lights. The building has two storeys and includes a modern extension with false timber framing on the right side.
Local climate
Willow Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2005
- 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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