Shoe Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 March 1985. House. 2 related planning applications.
Shoe Cottage
- WRENN ID
- rough-kitchen-vale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 March 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Shoe Cottage, 15, High Street, Blunham, MK44 3NL
- OS grid reference
- TL 152 511
- Coordinates
- 52.14693, -0.31672
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Shoe Cottage is a house dating to the 17th century, with a plaque suggesting a construction date of 1666. It is timber-framed, with some parts rendered and weatherboarding to the gable ends. The roof is thatched. The house has a three-room plan and includes attics. The ground floor has three three-light casement windows with leaded lights; two of these windows have moulded frames. Three gabled dormers, all with two-light casement windows, light the attic space. The main entrance is on the west elevation. A brick double ridge stack is located between the two right-hand bays.
Local climate
Shoe Cottage 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 — 2 transactions since 1996
- 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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