Sunbeam Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 March 1973. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Sunbeam Cottage
- WRENN ID
- tilted-corbel-fen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 March 1973
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Sunbeam Cottage, 141, Warden Street, Old Warden, SG18 9LR
- OS grid reference
- TL 126 439
- Coordinates
- 52.0825, -0.35724
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sunbeam Cottage is an estate cottage dating to 1775, with restoration work carried out in 1860, as indicated by a plaque. The cottage is built of red brick with a clay tile roof featuring decorative fishscale tiles. It has a two-room plan and includes a first floor attic space. The ground floor features two two-light windows with cast iron lattice glazing, set beneath cambered heads. The attic is lit by two gabled dormers, each containing similar windows and pierced bargeboards. A central gabled brick porch has a four-centred arched head framing the entrance, with smaller arched windows to the sides, and a plank door. Yellow brick moulded cornices are present on both the main house and the porch. The cottage has two integral red brick gable stacks, incorporating decorative mouldings and a band of yellow bricks to the cornice. An outbuilding constructed of red brick, is attached to the right-hand gable end.
Local climate
Sunbeam 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 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2016
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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