Poste Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1985. House.
Poste Cottage
- WRENN ID
- night-iron-sienna
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Poste Cottage, 5, Greenway, Campton and Chicksands
- OS grid reference
- TL 130 381
- Coordinates
- 52.03011, -0.35338
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Poste Cottage is a house, possibly originally a pair of cottages, dating from the 18th century. It features colourwashed roughcast over a timber frame and has a thatched roof. The building has a four-room plan and is one storey with attics, oriented with the gable end facing the road. The gable end has an early 19th-century bow window on the ground floor, which was formerly a shop, and an attic with a two-light casement window, both of which have glazing bars. On the north elevation, there are two ground floor windows and three gabled dormers, all with two-light casements featuring glazing bars. The front door is sheltered by an open porch with a hipped thatched hood. A red brick double ridge stack is present, along with a lean-to addition on the right-hand side. There is also a 20th-century extension in a similar style that projects from the west gable end.
Local climate
Poste Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% 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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