The Thatched Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. House. 1 related planning application.
The Thatched Cottage
- WRENN ID
- muffled-chamber-claret
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Luton South and South Bedfordshire MP: Rachel Hopkins (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Thatched Cottage, Leighton Road, Billington, LU7 9BL
- OS grid reference
- SP 941 226
- Coordinates
- 51.89405, -0.63318
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Thatched Cottage is a 17th-century building located on Leighton Road in Billington. It is timber-framed with whitewashed brick nogging and has one storey plus attics. The cottage features a thatched roof, with two box dormers that have Yorkshire casements, flanking an eyebrow dormer that contains a small casement with glazing bars. On the ground floor, from left to right, there is a 19th-century double-hung sash window, a three-light casement, a small single-light casement, and another double-hung sash window, all of which have glazing bars.
Local climate
The Thatched Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- 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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