The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 October 1966. A C17 House. 3 related planning applications.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-timber-meadow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 October 1966
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Cottage, 2, Biggleswade Road, Potton, SG19 2LU
- OS grid reference
- TL 221 491
- Coordinates
- 52.12683, -0.21754
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a 17th-century house located on Biggleswade Road, Potton. It is built with a timber frame and has roughcast render and a thatched roof. The house has a two-room plan, consisting of one storey and attics. On the ground floor, there are two sash windows with glazing bars. The attic has two gabled dormers, each containing a two-light casement window with glazing bars. The slightly off-centre doorway is accessed by a flight of steps and features a four-panel door sheltered by a simple cornice hood. A red brick double ridge stack runs along the roofline.
Nos. 4 and 6, a public house, formerly two separate properties, date to the 17th and 18th centuries. They are constructed with colourwashed roughcast over timber frame, with a significant portion of No. 4 rebuilt in the 20th century. The roofs are tiled. No. 4 is two storeys high, while No. 6 is one storey with attics. The windows are a variety of casements of differing sizes, with three windows on each floor of No. 4. No. 6 has two gabled dormers. No. 4 has a 20th-century open pediment doorcase and door, while No. 6 has a small panelled door, which is now out of use. The properties are included in the listing for group value.
Local climate
The 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 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 11 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- 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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