The Log Hut is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 March 1987. Garden house.
The Log Hut
- WRENN ID
- hidden-attic-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 March 1987
- Type
- Garden house
- Address
- The Log Hut, Woburn
- OS grid reference
- SP 956 344
- Coordinates
- 52.00034, -0.60875
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Log Hut is a garden house built around 1838 for John, the 6th Duke of Bedford. This North American style log cabin is situated in a glade of evergreen trees. It features a coursed ironstone plinth, with the upper part of the logs retaining their bark and apparently encasing a brick structure. The roof is covered with fishscale shingles and has logs along the ridges, with deep verges on the gables that showcase logwork on the undersides. The building has an irregular cross-shaped plan and is single-storeyed.
The southwest gable includes part-glazed double doors decorated with twigwork, accessible by a flight of timber steps with a moulded timber balustrade. The northern angle features a twigwork door reached by a flight of stone steps. Other elevations have casement windows with plank shutters. A substantial ironstone ridge stack is present, featuring three linked moulded square shafts.
Local climate
The Log Hut 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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