Long Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1985. House. 1 related planning application.
Long Cottage
- WRENN ID
- unlit-lead-ivory
- 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
- Long Cottage, 5, High Street, Clophill, MK45 4AB
- OS grid reference
- TL 082 377
- Coordinates
- 52.02794, -0.42288
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Long Cottage is an 18th-century house located on the north side of High Street in Clophill. The building features a colourwashed roughcast exterior over a timber frame and is topped with a thatched roof. It has a three-room plan and consists of one storey with attics. The west elevation includes three sloping-roofed dormers and an off-centre thatched gabled porch. There is one red brick double ridge stack and red brick external stacks at both gable ends. The windows throughout the cottage are 20th-century leaded casements.
Local climate
Long 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 — 1 transaction since 2020
- 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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