Chequers Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Chequers Cottage
- WRENN ID
- deep-bracket-thistle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Luton South and South Bedfordshire MP: Rachel Hopkins (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Chequers Cottage, Kensworth, LU6 3QZ
- OS grid reference
- TL 042 181
- Coordinates
- 51.85196, -0.48713
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Chequers Cottage is a 17th-century building located in Kensworth Lynch. It features whitewashed brick with timber framing visible on the first floor side elevation. The cottage is two storeys high and has an old clay tile roof. There are modern casemented cut bracketed door hoods, and modern extensions have been added to the rear.
Local climate
Chequers 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 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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