Willow Hill Cottages at Willow Hill Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 March 1985. Cottages. 4 related planning applications.
Willow Hill Cottages at Willow Hill Farm
- WRENN ID
- dim-flint-violet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 March 1985
- Type
- Cottages
- Address
- Willow Hill Cottages at Willow Hill Farm, Bedford Road, Moggerhanger, MK44 3RU
- OS grid reference
- TL 128 497
- Coordinates
- 52.1347, -0.35247
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Willow Hill Cottages, located at Willow Hill Farm, are a pair of cottages that were originally the farmhouse. They date back to the 17th century and have undergone later alterations. The cottages were once marked with a date plaque reading "G.T. 1791" (for Godfrey Thornton). The exterior features colourwashed roughcast over timber framing and brick, topped with a 20th-century tile roof that is half-tipped to the west. The cottages have a three-room plan and are two storeys high with attics. Each floor has three 3-light casement windows, and there are three hipped dormers in the attic. There are two doors: the left one is a six-panel door with a flat hood supported by cut brackets, while the right door is part-glazed and set within a 20th-century glazed porch. At the rear, there is an out-shot. An adjoining one-storey outbuilding and barn are located at the eastern gable end, with the outbuilding featuring a clay tile roof and roughcast render, and the barn having weatherboarding and a pantile roof.
Local climate
Willow Hill Cottages at Willow Hill Farm 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 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% 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 — 4 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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