Nutcracker Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1975. House.
Nutcracker Cottage
- WRENN ID
- half-gargoyle-equinox
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 July 1975
- Type
- House
- Address
- Nutcracker Cottage, 108, High Road, Shillington
- OS grid reference
- TL 126 338
- Coordinates
- 51.99181, -0.36133
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nutcracker Cottage is a house dating from the late 17th century. It features colourwashed roughcast render over a timber frame and has a clay tile roof. The building has a three-room plan and is one storey high with attics. There are three windows on the ground floor and three gabled dormers in the attic, all fitted with leaded two-light casements, some of which are from the 20th century. A 20th-century doorway is located on the right-hand side. The cottage has a red brick double ridge stack that serves back-to-back hearths and a red brick integral stack at the right gable end.
Local climate
Nutcracker 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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