Swading Hill Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 December 1979. Cottage.
Swading Hill Cottage
- WRENN ID
- lesser-steeple-wind
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 December 1979
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Swading Hill Cottage, Swaden, Sandy
- OS grid reference
- TL 182 491
- Coordinates
- 52.12774, -0.27328
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Swading Hill Cottage is an 18th-century building located in Sandy, Swaden. It features whitewashed roughcast on timber framing and is one storey high with attics. The cottage has a thatched roof. The gable end facing the road has one Yorkshire casement window on each floor, both with glazing bars. The front elevation includes two casement windows, also with glazing bars.
Local climate
Swading Hill 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 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% 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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