The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 February 1967. A Medieval Cottage. 1 related planning application.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- knotted-quartz-mint
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard MP: Alex Mayer (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 February 1967
- Type
- Cottage
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- The Cottage, Eggington, LU7 9NZ
- OS grid reference
- SP 947 263
- Coordinates
- 51.92733, -0.62308
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a cruck-framed cottage dating from the 15th or 16th century, featuring later red brick nogging and a brick plinth. It has one storey with attics and is topped with a corrugated iron roof. The gable end faces the road, and it has modern casement windows.
Local climate
The Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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