10 and 12, Thorncote Road is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 March 1985. Pair of cottages. 1 related planning application.
10 and 12, Thorncote Road
- WRENN ID
- watchful-moat-grove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 March 1985
- Type
- Pair of cottages
- Address
- 10 and 12, Thorncote Road, Northill, SG18 9AQ
- OS grid reference
- TL 149 466
- Coordinates
- 52.10619, -0.32287
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A pair of cottages dating from around 1800, located on Thorncote Road. The buildings are timber-framed with a colourwashed roughcast render finish. They have a clay tiled gambrel roof and a 4-room layout, with one storey and attics. Attached to each gable end is a single-storey outhouse block. The ground floor has four 2-light casement windows, and there are two gabled dormers also featuring 2-light casements, all with glazing bars. There are two plain doors, one red brick double ridge stack, and two red brick gable end stacks.
Local climate
10 and 12, Thorncote Road 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1995
- 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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