Sandpit Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 November 1993. Cottage. 5 related planning applications.
Sandpit Cottage
- WRENN ID
- rooted-terrace-indigo
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 November 1993
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Sandpit Cottage, Hardwick Road, Aspley Heath, MK17 8QJ
- OS grid reference
- SP 927 354
- Coordinates
- 52.01013, -0.64938
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sandpit Cottage is a squatter's cottage built in 1810 by William Whipham. It is timber framed and rendered, with a thatched roof. The cottage consists of two bays, each with a stack at the end walls, and has a central lobby entrance that leads to a stair bay. The right-hand bay features a spine beam that is chamfered with run-out stops, with slender joists exposed. The spine beam in the left-hand bay is nearly half round in section. At the rear, there is a two-storey projection facing gable, which was built in the 20th century. Notable interior features include a narrow fire-window recess beside the right-hand stack and a mantlepiece and cupboard from the early 20th century that incorporate pieces of 19th-century neo-Gothic carving.
Local climate
Sandpit Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% 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 — 2 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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