Irons Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. Cottage.
Irons Cottage
- WRENN ID
- errant-stone-smoke
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard MP: Alex Mayer (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Irons Cottage, 7, Heath Green, Heath and Reach
- OS grid reference
- SP 925 280
- Coordinates
- 51.9429, -0.65567
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Irons Cottage is a building dating from the 17th and 18th centuries. The right-hand section features a timber frame with red brick nogging and has three Yorkshire casements. The left-hand section is constructed from red and grey brick and includes two Yorkshire casements. The cottage is two storeys high and has an old clay tile roof that is half hipped to the left.
Local climate
Irons Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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 — 4 transactions since 1997
- No related consent applications matched
- 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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