Elm Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. A C16/C17 House. 1 related planning application.
Elm Tree Cottage
- WRENN ID
- quartered-thatch-fen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Elm Tree Cottage, 162, Manor Road, Barton-Le-Clay, MK45 4NU
- OS grid reference
- TL 085 305
- Coordinates
- 51.96315, -0.42183
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Elm Tree Cottage is a late 16th century or early 17th century house located on Manor Road in Barton-le-Clay. The building is timber framed and features a color washed rough cast exterior along with modern applied mock timber. It has an old clay tile roof and is designed in a T plan with a cross wing that juts out at the rear. The main wing includes a central back-to-back fireplace with a brick ridge stack. The cottage is one storey high with attics, and it has three ground floor casement windows along with two gabled dormers that also contain casements. There is fragmentary text painted on one of the beams.
Local climate
Elm Tree 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2014
- 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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