Well Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 March 1985. House.
Well Cottage
- WRENN ID
- leaning-tower-honey
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 March 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Well Cottage, 4, Bedford Road, Northill
- OS grid reference
- TL 149 465
- Coordinates
- 52.10579, -0.32366
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Well Cottage is a house dating from the 17th century. It has a substantial timber frame and a colourwashed roughcast exterior, topped with a thatched roof. The building features a two-room plan, is one storey high with attics, and has a later one-storey and attic addition on the north gable end, along with an outshot on the west elevation.
On the east elevation, the ground floor has two 2-light casements with leaded lights on the left side and a 20th-century hipped thatched addition on the right. The attic includes two eyebrow dormers, each with 2-light casements that have glazing bars. There is a red brick double ridge stack. The north block has one 2-light casement on each floor and an integral brick stack on the north gable end. The main entrance is located through the 20th-century addition on the west elevation.
Local climate
Well Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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