Linden Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. Cottage.

Linden Cottage

WRENN ID
carved-cloister-auburn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Central Bedfordshire
Constituency
Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard MP: Alex Mayer (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Cottage
Address
Linden Cottage, 1, Lanes End, Heath and Reach
OS grid reference
SP 924 280
Coordinates
51.94305, -0.65624
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Linden Cottage is a 17th-century building located on the south side of Heath and Reach Lane's End. It features a timber-framed structure with colourwashed brick nogging and plaster. The cottage is two storeys high and has a thatched roof. There are two 3-light casement windows, and a 19th-century thatched wooden trellis porch adds to its charm.

Local climate

Linden Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% 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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