Manor Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1985. House.
Manor Cottage
- WRENN ID
- deep-chamber-gold
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Manor Cottage, Shillington
- OS grid reference
- TL 101 330
- Coordinates
- 51.9846, -0.39727
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Manor Cottage is a house dating from the 16th century, with alterations made in the 18th and 19th centuries. It features a substantial timber frame, with some later light framing, and is finished with colourwashed roughcast render. The roof is covered with clay tiles and has a higher ridge level on the left-hand bay. The building has a four-room plan, with the outer bays likely added later to what was originally a two-room structure. It stands two storeys tall.
On the ground floor, there is one 2-light and three 3-light casement windows. The first floor has one 3-light and two 2-light casements, along with a single light in an original 16th-century opening. A 20th-century gabled porch has been added. The house has two mottled brick ridge stacks, with the left-hand stack serving a substantial inglenook fireplace in the left room of the original block. There is also a single-storey outhouse block attached to the right gable end.
Local climate
Manor 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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