Easter Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1961. House. 3 related planning applications.
Easter Cottage
- WRENN ID
- sharp-rotunda-honey
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 January 1961
- Type
- House
- Address
- Easter Cottage, 18, West Hill, Aspley Guise, MK17 8DN
- OS grid reference
- SP 941 358
- Coordinates
- 52.01337, -0.62975
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Easter Cottage is a house that was formerly known as The Steamer public house. It dates back to the 16th century and was reworked in the 20th century. The building has a timber framed structure with colourwashed plaster infill and a thatched roof. It is designed in an L-plan, with the left-hand block being one storey with attics and the right-hand cross-wing having two storeys.
The left-hand block features two 2-light casements on the ground floor, and in the attic, there are two 3-light casements and one 2-light casement set under eyebrow dormers. The right-hand gable has a 4-light casement on each floor. All the windows are from the 20th century and have leaded lights. The right-hand gable also has a plank door beneath a 20th-century open porch with a tiled gabled hood. Additionally, the left-hand block has a rebuilt red brick multiple ridge stack, and almost in line with this stack is a ground floor timber frame panel with a 4-centred head, which may indicate a blocked doorway.
Local climate
Easter Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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