Church Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 March 1985. House.
Church Cottage
- WRENN ID
- sunken-doorway-rye
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 March 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Church Cottage, Warden Road, Southill
- OS grid reference
- TL 146 421
- Coordinates
- 52.06594, -0.32916
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Church Cottage is a house that was formerly two properties, belonging to the Southill Estate. The western part dates from the 18th century and features colourwashed roughcast over a timber frame with a clay tile roof that is half hipped to the west. It has a two-room plan, is one storey high with attics, and includes a ground floor with one two-light casement window with glazing bars, an 18th-century canted bay window with sashes and glazing bars, and a part-glazed door. There is also one box dormer in the attic, which has a two-light casement window with glazing bars, and a brick integral stack at the west end.
The eastern part has a plaque on the gable end that reads "W H W 1856." This section is constructed of chequered brick and has a fishscale tile roof. It also has a two-room plan but is two storeys high. The ground floor features one window under a cambered head, and there are two first-floor windows, all of which are two-light casements with glazing bars. The entrance includes a fielded panel door in a simple surround, and there is one brick ridge stack along with one brick integral stack at the west gable end.
Local climate
Church 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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