Malting House Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1961. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Malting House Cottage
- WRENN ID
- ghost-baluster-rain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 January 1961
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Malting House Cottage, High Street, Silsoe, MK45 4EP
- OS grid reference
- TL 081 358
- Coordinates
- 52.01016, -0.42503
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building comprises two properties, originally a single dwelling, dating back to the 17th century, with additions from the 18th and 19th centuries. The timber-framed structure has a ground floor rebuilt using a mix of coursed rubble and brick. The first floor is rendered and colourwashed, and the roof is covered with clay tiles. The original layout was a 3-room plan, to which an 18th-century hipped bay was added to the west end and a shallow 19th-century gable was added projecting from the southeast. The building is two storeys high, featuring mostly 2-light leaded casement windows. The south elevation incorporates 20th-century doors. A red brick double ridge stack is present on No. 46, while Malting House Cottage has later 19th-century yellow brick stacks. The eastern end of Malting House Cottage features a later 19th-century colourwashed brick and slate section.
Local climate
Malting House 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2007
- 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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