Duck End Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1976. House.
Duck End Cottage
- WRENN ID
- dusk-gravel-rush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 March 1976
- Type
- House
- Address
- Duck End Cottage, 15, Duck End Lane, Maulden
- OS grid reference
- TL 049 379
- Coordinates
- 52.02965, -0.47133
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Duck End Cottage is an 18th-century house located on Duck End Lane in Maulden. The cottage features exposed timber framing and some areas rebuilt in brick, mostly covered with colourwashed roughcast render. It has a thatched roof that is hipped to the left. The building has a two-room plan, is one storey high with attics, and includes an additional bay on the left side. On the ground floor, there are two windows, while the attic features two eyebrow dormers, all of which are two-light casements with glazing bars. A part-glazed door is situated on the left side. The cottage also has two rendered double chimney stacks located at the gable ends of the original structure.
Local climate
Duck End 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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 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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